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Alf's Button Afloat (1938)

Alf's Button Afloat poster
Directed by
Marcel Varnel
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 29m
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of sailors discover that one of their buttons has magical powers. They get into a series of silly mishaps while trying to use it.

lightheartedwhimsicalplayfulfast-pacedabsurdnonsensicalold-fashionedcomical

What happens

Alf's Button Afloat is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Alastair Sim and Peter Gawthorne. It was written by Marriott Edgar, Val Guest and Ralph Smart based on the 1920 novel Alf's Button by W.A. Darlington. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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