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The Baby and the Battleship

1956 · 96 min

A gentle, good-natured caper that coasts on the charm of its naval setting and the mild chaos of a baby on board.

Tagline
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.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • family
  • loyalty
  • parenthood
Places
  • sea
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour7
Realism6
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness1
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Jay Lewis
Written by
Jay Lewis, Richard De Roy, Gilbert Hackforth-Jones
Starring
John Mills, Richard Attenborough, André Morell, Bryan Forbes, Michael Hordern, Ernest Clark, Harry Locke, Michael Howard
Cinematography
Harry Waxman
Runtime
96 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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