The Baby and the Battleship (1956)
1h 36m
Running Time
June 1, 1956Release Date
The Baby and the Battleship (1956)
1h 36m
Running Time
June 1, 1956Release Date
Plot.
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
John Mills
Puncher Roberts
Richard Attenborough
Knocker White
André Morell
Marshal
Bryan Forbes
Prof. Evans
Michael Hordern
Capt. Hugh
Ernest Clark
Cmdr. Geoffrey Digby
Harry Locke
CPO Blades
Richard De Roy
Writer
Michael Howard
Joe
John Le Mesurier
The Marshal’s Aide
Lionel Jeffries
George
Ferdy Mayne
Interpreter
Clifford Mollison
Sails
Kenneth Griffith
Sub-Lieutenant
Gordon Jackson
Harry
Jay Lewis
Director
Media.
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The Baby and the Battleship is a colour 1956 British comedy film directed by Jay Lewis and starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and André Morell. It is based on the 1956 novel by Anthony Thorne with a screenplay by Richard De Roy, Gilbert Hackforth-Jones and Bryan Forbes. The Royal Navy provided much cooperation with sequences filmed aboard HMS Birmingham and in Malta.