Sailors Three (1940)
December 14, 1940Release Date
Sailors Three (1940)
December 14, 1940Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Tommy Trinder
Tommy Taylor
Claude Hulbert
Admiral
Carla Lehmann
Jane
Michael Wilding
Johnny
James Hayter
Hans
Jeanne De Casalis
Mrs. Pilkington
Henry Hewitt
Prof. Pilkington
Brian Fitzpatrick
Digby
John Laurie
McNab
Harold Warrender
Pilot's Mate
Eric Clavering
Bartender
Walter Forde
Director
John Glyn-Jones
Best Man
Julian Vedey
Resident of Tangier
Angus MacPhail
Writer
Austin Melford
Writer
John Wengraf
German Captain
Manning Whiley
German Commdr.
John Dighton
Writer
Michael Balcon
Producer
Victor Fairley
German Petty Officer
Robert Rendel
British Captain
Günther Krampf
Cinematographer
Allan Jeayes
British Commdr.
Ray Pitt
Editor
Alec Clunes
British Pilot
Derek Elphinstone
British Observer
Jonny Bloor
Minor Role (uncredited)
Harold Coyne
Sailor (uncredited)
E. V. H. Emmett
Newsreel Commentator (voice)
Danny Green
Nightclub Bouncer (uncredited)
Bryan Herbert
Petty Officer on HMS Ferocious (uncredited)
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Details.
Release DateDecember 14, 1940
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 26m
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Sailors Three (released in the US as Three Cockeyed Sailors) is a 1940 British war comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert and Carla Lehmann. This was cockney music hall comedian Trinder's debut for Ealing, the studio with which he was to become most closely associated. It concerns three British sailors who accidentally find themselves aboard a German ship during the Second World War.
Detailed surveys published in Britain in the early years of the war by the "Mass-Observation" organisation, showed the popularity of comedy with wartime cinema audiences. Films with the war as a subject were particularly well received, especially those movies showing the lighter side of service life, largely because many in the audience would soon be finding themselves in uniform. John Oliver writes in BFI screenonline, " to prepare such potential recruits for their own possible riotous and fun-packed life in the Royal Navy, Sandy Powell had already taken the shilling in All At Sea (dir. Herbert Smith, 1939) before Tommy Trinder did likewise with Sailors Three, following his comic misadventures in the army in Laugh It Off (dir. John Baxter) earlier that same year."The song "All Over The Place" (words by Frank Eyton; music by Noel Gay), sung by Trinder in the film, became one of the most popular of the war.