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The Baby and the Battleship (1956)

The Baby and the Battleship poster
Directed by
Jay Lewis
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 36m
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A baby accidentally ends up on a battleship. The sailors must hide the baby from their strict commander.

lightheartedwhimsicalplayfulamusinggentlebreezynostalgic

What happens

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. 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 much cooperation with sequences filmed aboard HMS Birmingham and in Malta. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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