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    Up The Creek (1958)

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    British Naval officer Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) has an uncontrollable passion for building guided missiles that are constantly going off at the wrong time and causing considerable damage to the naval bases he keeps getting bounced between.

    Unfortunately, the Navy can’t get rid of him because of his family connections (he is related to the First Sea Lord) and so in desperation, the Admiralty gives him command of the ancient destroyer HMS Berkeley – the oldest member of the “Mothball Fleet” which has been without a commanding officer in the wilds of Suffolk for nearly two years.

    It turns out the skeleton crew of the rusty old destroyer – led by wily CPO Doherty (Peter Sellers) – is running a highly profitable but illegal money-making scheme with the local villagers. “Berkeley Enterprises Ltd” runs a one-day laundry service and sells eggs (hatched by chickens kept on the bridge), pork, rum, cigarettes, sheets, bakery goodies and government-supplied paint at cut-price rates.

    A sequel – Further Up The Creek – quickly followed.

    Lt. Humphrey Fairweather
    David Tomlinson
    CPO Doherty
    Peter Sellers
    Admiral Foley
    Wilfrid Hyde-White
    Lily
    Vera Day
    Susanne
    Liliane Sottane
    Flag Lieutenant
    Tom Gill
    Nelson
    Michael Goodliffe
    Perkins
    Lionel Murton
    Cooky
    John Warren
    Steady Barker
    Lionel Jeffries
    Bunts
    Howard Williams
    Chippie
    Peter Collingwood
    Webster
    Barry Lowe
    Bennett
    Edwin Richfield
    Scouse
    David Lodge
    Lofty
    Max Butterfield
    Bates
    Sam Kydd
    Coombes
    Basil Dignam
    Cmdr. Price
    Peter Coke
    Regulating Petty Officer
    Jack McNaughton
    Commander
    Patrick Cargill

    Director
    Val Guest

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