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    Girl On The Boat, The (1960)

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    Zany British jokester Norman Wisdom tried something different from his usual slapstick with this seagoing comedy romance set in the roaring ’20s.

    Wisdom stars as young English aristocrat Sam Marlowe who is travelling on a Transatlantic liner with his “silly ass” cousin, Eustace Hignett (Richard Briers). The pair are running away for peace and quiet because Sam had almost rented ‘Windles’ – the country house belonging to Eustace’s mother (Athene Seyler) – to some Americans.

    Eustace had also tried to marry against his mother’s wishes, so the two young lads are in trouble.

    Onboard, Sam meets and falls for an American girl, Billie (an outstanding Millicent Martin, pictured above), while Eustace retires below with a lengthy case of seasickness. But Sam tries to woo Billie without realising that she was the girl that Eustace wanted to marry.

    Bernard Cribbins also stars in this adaptation of the P.G. Wodehouse novel. It bombed at the box office and Wisdom must have thought he could do nothing right.

    Sam Marlowe
    Norman Wisdom
    Wilhelmina ‘Billie’ Bennett
    Millicent Martin
    Eustace Hignett
    Richard Briers
    Jane Howard
    Sheila Hancock
    Peters
    Bernard Cribbins
    Mrs Adelaide Hignett
    Athene Seyler
    Bream Mortimer
    Philip Locke
    Webster
    Noel Willman
    Dennis Bennett
    William Sherwood
    J.P. Mortimer
    Martin Wyldeck
    Colonel
    Ronald Fraser
    Barman
    Reginald Beckwith
    Purser
    Timothy Bateson

    Director
    Henry Kaplan

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