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Watch Your Stern (1960)

Watch Your Stern poster
Directed by
Gerald Thomas
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 27m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A bumbling Royal Navy crew gets into a series of mishaps aboard their ship. The slapstick chaos involves mistaken identities and a secret weapon.

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What happens

Watch Your Stern is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker and Leslie Phillips. It was written by Alan Hackney based on the play Something About a Sailor by Earle Couttie. The film shares its cast and production team with the Carry On films, but is not an official member of the series. It also has similarities to the long-running BBC radio series The Navy Lark. It is the only film to feature Sid James with a full beard (Royal Navy style) and the first to feature Spike Milligan in his Indian character. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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