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Girls At Sea is a 1958 British comedy film directed by Gilbert Gunn and starring Guy Rolfe, Ronald Shiner, Alan White, Michael Hordern and Anne Kimbell. It was based on the 1930 play The Middle Watch by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall, previously filmed as The Middle Watch in 1930 and under the same title in 1940.




Plot


Officers throw an extravagant party on board the battleship HMS Scotia when it visits the French Riviera. At the end of the night, the final shore-boat is judged unseaworthy, and three attractive female guests, Mary, Jill and Antoinette, must spend the night on board ship. But before they can be escorted ashore the next day, the battleship is called out on manoeuvres off the coast of Italy. Having no choice but to take the women along, Captain Maitland must hide the girls' presence from the admiral.




Cast


Guy Rolfe as Captain Alwin Maitland
Ronald Shiner as Marine Ogg
Alan White as Commander
Michael Hordern as Admiral Reginald Victor Hewitt
Anne Kimbell as Mary Carlton
Nadine Tallier as Antoinette
Fabia Drake as Lady Kitty Hewitt
Mary Steele as Jill Eaton
Richard Coleman as Captain Robert 'Bobby' Randall
Lionel Jeffries as Harry, the tourist
Teddy Johnson as singer
Daniel Massey as Flag Lieutenant Courtney
David Lodge as Corporal Duckett
Warren Mitchell as Arthur
Michael Ripper as Jumper, Marine
Mercy Haystead as Claudine
Brian Wilde as Bill
Harold Goodwin as Wal
David Aylmer as Navigating Officer
Richard Briers as 'Popeye' Lewis




Critical reception


The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The Middle Watch, a stock repertory farce by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall, had a few amusing moments, but loses most of them in transit to the screen. Michael Hordern, as the irascible Admiral, wins a partial victory over his material, as he frenziedly attempts to open a series of locked doors. The rest of the film laboriously hammers home comic clichés, shot, as if to emphasise its stage origins, against a studio background of stationary clouds."
The Radio Times wrote: "The 1940s film version of the stage farce The Middle Watch, which starred Jack Buchanan, was pretty bad, but beside this tepid remake it looks like a comedy classic. The cast does its level best to pep up the tired material ... Ronald Shiner is cheeky and Michael Hordern is absent-mindedly authoritarian, but Guy Rolfe is as wooden as a figurehead, while all the girls get to do is rush around in a state of undress. Try another form of naval gazing instead."
TV Guide called it "An amusing comedy."
Allmovie noted, "Michael Hordern has some dryly amusing moments as the hapless Admiral."
British film critic Leslie Halliwell said: "Vulgarized remake of The Middle Watch."




References






External links


Girls at Sea at IMDb

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