The Baby and the Battleship

The Baby and the Battleship is a colour 1956 British comedy film directed by Jay Lewis and starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and André Morell.^[1] It is based on the 1956 novel by Anthony Thorne with a screenplay by Richard De Roy, Gilbert Hackforth-Jones and Bryan Forbes. The Royal Navy provided a large amount of cooperation with sequences filmed aboard HMS Birmingham and in Malta.

Plot

When a group of Royal Navy sailors go ashore on shore leave to Naples, they are forced to care for a baby, separated from its mother. During a brawl, Puncher Roberts is knocked unconscious and finds the square empty, except for the baby. Unable to find his friend Knocker, or the child's mother, he smuggles the baby aboard their ship in the midst of a series of joint operations with Allied navies off the coast of Italy.

Cast

• John Mills - Puncher Roberts
• Richard Attenborough - Knocker White
• André Morell - Marshal
• Bryan Forbes - Professor Evans
• Michael Horden - Captain Hugh
• Ernest Clark - Commander Geoffrey Digby
• Harry Locke - Chief Petty Officer Blades
• Michael Howard - Joe
• Lionel Jeffries - George
• Clifford Mollison - Sails
• Thorley Walters - Lieutenant Setley
• Duncan Lamont - Master-at-Arms
• Lisa Gastoni - Maria
• Cyril Raymond - PMO
• Harold Siddons - Whiskers
• D. A. Clarke-Smith - The Admiral
• Kenneth Griffith - Sub-Lieutenant
• John Le Mesurier - The Marshal's Aide
• Carlo Giustini - Carlo Vespucci
• Ferdy Mayne - Interpreter
• Vincent Barbi - Second Brother
• Gordon Jackson - Harry
• Vittorio Vittori - Third Brother
• Martyn Garrett - The Baby
• Barry Foster - Sailor at Dance
• Robert Ayres - American Captain

References

External links

• The Baby and the Battleship at the Internet Movie Database