You Know What Sailors Are (1954)

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89 min - Comedy - 4 November 1954 (USA)

4.5

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A fun frolic involving a fake secret weapon (accidentally created during a drinking bout), naval bureaucracy, political maneuvering and the hareem and palace of the exotic eastern country of Agraria.

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Cast overview, first billed only:
	Akim Tamiroff	...	President of Agraria
	Donald Sinden	...	Lt. Sylvester Green
	Sarah Lawson	...	Betty
	Naunton Wayne	...	Captain Owbridge
	Bill Kerr	...	Lt. Smart
	Dora Bryan	...	Gladys
	Martin Miller	...	Prof. Hyman Pfumbaum
	Michael Shepley	...	Admiral
	Michael Hordern	...	Captain Hamilton
	Ferdy Mayne	...	Stanislaus Voritz of Smorznigov
	Bryan Coleman	...	Lt. Comdr. Voles
	Cyril Chamberlain	...	Stores Officer
	Hal Osmond	...	Stores Petty Officer
	Peter Arne	...	Ahmed
	Shirley Lorimer	...	Jasmin

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Lt. Sylvester Green is making his crooked way shipwards with a couple of naval colleagues after a night's drinking and along the way they collect an old pram and three brass balls from a pawnbroker's shop. Passing the foreign vessel Agraria on the dock they notice some welding equipment and decide to have some fun. They attach the junk to the Agraria and paint it naval grey. Next morning when Green unsteadily arises his commanding officer has noticed the mysterious new equipment and trying to avoid exposure Green identifies it confidently as a '998'. From then on things only get more confused as soon everyone in the navy wants to know why this foreign ship has more up-to-date radar than they do. Green is coincidentally seconded to the Agraria as a radar instructor and soon (through the magical power of coincidence) the Agrarians (and everyone else) believe it is a powerful secret weapon... Written by Seán Ó Séaghdha

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