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Production Companies
Jay Lewis Productions
The Baby and the Battleship
It all starts when a sailor's left holding the baby!
Overview
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.
Key Crew
Director: Jay Lewis
Screenplay: Jay Lewis, Gilbert Hackforth-Jones, Richard De Roy
Story: Richard De Roy
Producer: Antony Darnborough
Director of Photography: Harry Waxman
Top Cast
John Mills
Puncher Roberts
Richard Attenborough
Knocker White
André Morell
Marshal
Bryan Forbes
Prof. Evans
Michael Hordern
Capt. Hugh
Ernest Clark
Cmdr. Geoffrey Digby
Harry Locke
CPO Blades
Michael Howard
Joe
