Why Sailors Leave Home (1930)
1h 11m
Running Time
September 1, 1930Release Date
Why Sailors Leave Home (1930)
1h 11m
Running Time
September 1, 1930Release Date
Plot.
When their ship arrives in an Arabian port, the sailors are given shore leave among them Bill Biggles, who has previously had little success with women. Visiting a sheik who has long been under obligation to him, Bill is welcomed at the palace, and the polygamous ruler, who has abducted a damsel, decides to absent himself and appoint Bill as his deputy. It seems Bill's luck is set to change dramatically until the wives decide to go on strike!
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Cast & Crew.

Leslie Fuller
Bill Biggles

Peter Bernard
George

Eve Gray
Slave Girl

Gladys Cruickshank
Slave Girl

Dmitri Vetter
Multhasa

Frank Melroyd
Captain

Syd Courtenay
Sheik Sidi Ben / Story

Lola Harvey
Maya / Story
Details.
Wiki.
Why Sailors Leave Home is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Leslie Fuller, Peter Bernard and Eve Gray. The screenplay concerns a British sailor on shore leave in the Middle East who ends up being mistaken for a Sheikh.