Windbag the Sailor

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Windbag the Sailor (1936)

U 12/01/1936 (GB) Comedy 1h 27m

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Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.

William Beaudine

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Will Hay

Captain Ben Cutlet
Moore Marriott

Harbottle
Norma Varden

Olivia Potter-Porter
Kenneth Warrington

Yates
Dennis Wyndham

Maryatt
Amy Veness

Emma Harbottle
Graham Moffatt

Albert
Peter Gawthorne

Bit Role (uncredited)
George Merritt

Officer on Yacht
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A review by John Chard

60%

Written by John Chard on September 6, 2014

What shall we do with the drunken sailor?

Captain Ben Cutlet likes to spin yarns about all of his (fake) seafaring adventures, one day his false past comes to bite him as he is bluffed into captaining the Rob Roy at sea, the Rob Roy being barely sea worthy and doomed to be wrecked by a crafty shipping agent.

Windbag The Sailor is probably most notable for being the first teaming of Will Hay with Moore Marriott & Graham Moffatt, a trio that would go on to make classic British comedies Oh Mr Porter! and Ask A Policeman. Here it's evident that they are finding their way as regards what best... read the rest.

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