Sailor Beware
- 1956 film
1950s farce starring Peggy Mount as a formidable mother who scares her daughter's naval fiancé. Also features Shirley Eaton, Ronald Lewis, Cyril Smith, Esma Cannon, Gordon Jackson and more.
- Repeated Thursday 28th November at 6:10am on TPTV
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1956
- Stars
- Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, Ronald Lewis, Cyril Smith, Esma Cannon, Gordon Jackson, Geoffrey Keen, Joy Webster and more
- Writers
- Philip King and Falkland L. Cary
- Director
- Gordon Parry
- Producer
- Jack Clayton
- Company
Able seaman Alfred Tufnell is looking forward to leaving the navy and marrying his beloved, Shirley Hornett. An orphan from naval care homes, the service is the only family he's ever known and Alfred can't wait to settle down with Shirley and begin life on their own terms.
He's shocked and hurt, however, to discover that Shirley's battleaxe mother, Emma, has put a deposit down on a house for the pair, just 3 doors from the family home. He can cope with his future mother-in-law in limited doses, but living on her doorstep...?
As the day of the wedding dawns, Albert has disappeared. Best man Carnoustie - being a fellow sailor - naturally gets the blame from Emma for Shirley having been abandoned at the altar, but little does she know that the true reason for his vanishing act is far closer to home!
Can the Reverend Purefoy patch up the relationship between lovebirds Shirley and Alfred before it's too late?
Additional details
- UK certificate
- U
- Duration
- 80 minutes
- UK release
- September 1956
- Distributors
- Production
- Studio
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Black and white
Website links
Broadcast details
- Next repeats
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- Thursday 28th November at 6:10am on TPTV
- Most recent repeats
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- Wednesday 14th August 2024 at 7:00am on TPTV
- Friday 17th May 2024 at 8:55am on TPTV
- Tuesday 27th February 2024 at 10:55am on TPTV