Directed by:
Wolf RillaCinematography:
Arthur GrantComposer:
Douglas GamleyCast:
Frankie Howerd, Dennis Price, John Meillon, Arthur Howard, Renee Houston, Liz Fraser, Marianne Stone, Irene Handl, William Mervyn, Miriam Karlin, Cyril Smith (more)Plots(1)
Able-bodied seaman Albert Tufnell (John Meillon) plans to marry Shirley Hornett (Vera Day), and the ceremony is about to take place -- when a telegram arrives from an officer aboard his ship, advising that marriage is impossible for Tufnell at that moment. Shirley's battle-ax of a mother (Marjorie Rhodes) doesn't know the facts behind the telegram but assumes the worst, and won't even discuss what to do about the wedding, even as she tries to live down the humiliation of a ceremony stopped midway through. Albert and his best friend, Carnoustie Bligh (Graham Stark), try to sort it all out, but even the arrival of an officer from their ship (Dennis Price) with an explanation only makes matters more complicated. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Frankie Howerd
UK
Best movies:
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Mouse on the Moon (1963)
The House in Nightmare Park (1973)
Dennis Price
UK
Best movies:
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
The V.I.P.s (1963)
Ten Little Indians (1965)
John Meillon
Australia
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
Camel Boy, The (1984)
Walkabout (1971)
Arthur Howard
UK
Best movies:
State Secret (1950)
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Renee Houston
UK
Best movies:
A Town Like Alice (1956)
Repulsion (1965)
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
Liz Fraser
UK
Best movies:
Miss Marple: Nemesis (1987) (TV movie)
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
Marianne Stone
UK
Best movies:
Tiger Bay (1959)
To Sir, with Love (1967)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Irene Handl
UK
Best movies:
Brief Encounter (1945)
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
Stage Fright (1950)
William Mervyn
Kenya
Best movies:
Murder Ahoy (1964)
Hot Millions (1968)
Upstairs and Downstairs (1959)
Miriam Karlin
UK
Best movies:
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Room at the Top (1959)
Children of Men (2006)
Cyril Smith
UK
Best movies:
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
Sidewalks of London (1938)
No Highway (1951)
Diane Aubrey
UK
Best movies:
Village of the Damned (1960)
The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
Vera Day
UK
Best movies:
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
A Stitch in Time (1963)
Hell Drivers (1957)
Graham Stark
UK
Best movies:
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
Becket (1964)
Harry Locke
UK
Best movies:
The Early Bird (1965)
Reach for the Sky (1956)
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)