Windbag the Sailor (1936)
1936 · Feature film · 81 min · dir. William Beaudine
- Comedy
Synopsis
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- William Beaudine
- Writer
- Robert Stevenson
- Studio
- Gainsborough Pictures, Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
- Released
- 1936-12-01
- Running time
- 81 minutes
Cast & crew
William Beaudine Director
Will Hay
Moore Marriott
Graham Moffatt
Norma Varden- Kenneth Warrington
Dennis Wyndham
Amy Veness
Peter Gawthorne
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Entertaining Will Hay vehicle. · Kodachrome · 2011-05-27
Yes, he has made better, but this movie has all the qualities one hopes to find in a Will Hay movie. Proof that incompetence leads to success...in Hay world. Voice in box say: "5 stars."
★★★ · What a Windbag · mesiw · 2010-08-23
Interesting little comedy. Nothing hard to figure out, just ride along with the story for a few laughs. I enjoyed it.
★★★ · Another entertaining Hay film · rclo · 2011-05-26
Not their best, but still worth a watch. Will Hay plays his usual bombastic bumbler, and Albert displays the only brains in the group, which isn't saying much. This time , they're at sea on a tramp steamer thinking they're heading for "Norway," but really heading for a sinking for insurance money. The hero of the movie is a battery-powered radio.
