Sailors Three

Sailors Three- 1940 | 86mins | Comedy | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Walter Forde.
Producer: Michael Balcon.
Associate Producer: Culley Forde.
Script: Angus MacPhail, John Dighton and Austin Melford.
Cinematography: Gunther Krampf.
Art Direction: Wilfred Shingleton.
Editing: Ray Pitt.
Music: Ernest Irving.

The Cast

Tommy Trinder - Tommy Taylor
Claude Hulbert - Admiral
Michael Wilding - Johnny
Carla Lehmann - Jane
Henry Hewitt - Professor Pilkigton
James Hayter - Hans
John Laurie - MacNab

Plot Synopsis

Walter Forde's last film at Ealing, released in October 1940, was Sailors Three, a broad comedy which included a couple of song-and-dance numbers, in which three shipmates (Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert and Michael Wilding) get drunk in a South American neutral port and inadvertently join the wrong ship, which turns out to be a German pocket battleship, the Ludendorff, which they subsequently capture. Forde's music-hall training enabled him to see that the gags were well-timed.
Extract© George Perry: Forever Ealing.