Sailor Beware
Sailor Beware – 1956 | 81 mins | Comedy | B&W
Plot Synopsis
Raucous mother-in-law comedy based on the long-running Strand Theatre stage success by Philip King and Falkland Cary. British character actress Peggy Mount got her film break when the stage farce transferred to the big screen and she dominates the proceedings despite some scene-stealing from the peerless Esma Cannon.
Able seaman Albert Tufnell (Ronald Lewis) suffers a major attack of cold feet on the eve of his wedding to fiancée Shirley (Shirley Eaton) when he realises just what he’s getting into with Emma Hornet (Peggy Mount) – the potential mother-in-law from hell. She terrorises her prospective son-in-law and his best man (Gordon Jackson), and hen-pecked hubby Henry (Cyril Smith) seeks solace by spending so much time with his ferrets.
Production Team
Gordon Parry: Director
Norman G Arnold: Art Direction
Douglas Slocombe: Cinematography
Bridget Sellers: Costume and Wardrobe Departmen
Stan Hawkes: Film Editing
Joan White: Makeup Department
George Frost: Makeup Department
Lambert Williamson: Music Department
Peter Akister: Original Music
John Woolf: Producer
Jack Clayton: Producer
Falkland L Cary: Script
John Cox: Sound Department
Peter Handford: Sound Department
Bob Jones: Sound Department
Cast
Peggy Mount: Emma Hornett
Shirley Eaton: Shirley Hornett
Ronald Lewis: Albert Tufnell
Cyril Smith: Henry Hornett
Esma Cannon: Edie Hornett
Gordon Jackson: Carnoustie Bligh
Geoffrey Keen: Rev Mr Purefoy
Joy Webster: Daphne Pink
Thora Hird: Mrs Lack
Eliot Makeham: Uncle Brummell
