Agrega una trama en tu idiomaThree British sailors find they've accidentally strayed on board a German warship during World War II. They then proceed to take it over and requisition it for the Royal Navy.Three British sailors find they've accidentally strayed on board a German warship during World War II. They then proceed to take it over and requisition it for the Royal Navy.Three British sailors find they've accidentally strayed on board a German warship during World War II. They then proceed to take it over and requisition it for the Royal Navy.
- Dirección
- Guionistas
- Elenco
Julian Vedey
- Resident of Tangier
- (as Julien Vedey)
John Wengraf
- German Captain
- (as Hans Wengraf)
Opiniones destacadas
Tommy Trinder the popular music hall and radio star of the thirties and forties leads the cast of this typical British war time froth which pokes fun at the enemy in a light knock about lark with a few songs thrown in. The movie is of coarse complete nonsense but represents what was showing down at the Ritz during the early war period.
The crew of a British destroyer are dispatched to search the Atlantic and sink a German destroyer doing great damage to the British fleet. After several luckless months at sea the ship docks in South America where three of the crew get a little distracted by one of the trio's sister, about to leave the area for England, and end up stranded and drunk when their ship sails. Drunkenly they row after it but accidentally board a different ship that is secluded near the port unfortunately it is the very German destroyer they were looking for. After trying to blend in they are unmasked as British and locked up. However the brave spirit makes them look for ways to capture the ship themselves and sail it for England.
Opening with a musical number that is right out of George Formby's act this film sets itself out as a film that harks back to the music hall style of humour and entertainment. The plot doesn't really matter as it is merely an excuse for a lot of running around etc. My biggest problem with it was the length of time it took for the film to get going and get the sailors on the German ship. However once on the humour is average all cheeky chappie stuff with plenty of plucky British lads taking on the humourless and stern Germans etc. There is nothing to amazing here but I found it amusing to see a film very much of it's time that has stayed in the period never to be seen again!
The cast are all pretty much just playing characters as they would have done on the stage like I said, they are all plucky English lads etc. The support cast play a variety of clichés and stereotypes to reasonable effect but to be honest the film never aspires to be anything more than a patriotic bit of clowning where the Germans get what for from `the lads'!
Overall this was an average film at best nothing really stuck in my mind from it but it wasn't awful. After a while the protracted clowning got a bit repetitive but it was short enough to just about hang together till the end.
Opening with a musical number that is right out of George Formby's act this film sets itself out as a film that harks back to the music hall style of humour and entertainment. The plot doesn't really matter as it is merely an excuse for a lot of running around etc. My biggest problem with it was the length of time it took for the film to get going and get the sailors on the German ship. However once on the humour is average all cheeky chappie stuff with plenty of plucky British lads taking on the humourless and stern Germans etc. There is nothing to amazing here but I found it amusing to see a film very much of it's time that has stayed in the period never to be seen again!
The cast are all pretty much just playing characters as they would have done on the stage like I said, they are all plucky English lads etc. The support cast play a variety of clichés and stereotypes to reasonable effect but to be honest the film never aspires to be anything more than a patriotic bit of clowning where the Germans get what for from `the lads'!
Overall this was an average film at best nothing really stuck in my mind from it but it wasn't awful. After a while the protracted clowning got a bit repetitive but it was short enough to just about hang together till the end.
I felt that I should correct some of the errors made in a previous review.This film was released in December 1940.The film was therefore made after the fall of France and therefore unlikely to be affected by attitudes of the Phoney War.Ealing portrayed the Nazis as buffoons well into the war.An example being The Goose Steps Out starring Will Hay.Also the end title displaying the British flag dates back to the thirties.This film is primarily a vehicle for the comedian Tommy Trinder.It is very apparent from this film that he is no actor but primarily a music hall comedian.Claude Hulbert is by far the most accomplished actor in this film.Michael Wilding is at the early stages of his career and it shows.I wondered if this film was maybe inspired by the sinking of the Graff Spew off Montivideo.Anyway it is fairly uninspired.In fact Ealings most famous war film was Went The Day Well which is still screened today unlike this film which is very much forgotten.
¿Sabías que…?
- ErroresWhen the sailors go ashore on leave, you can see their shadows clearly against the back-projected sea surrounding the small boat.
- ConexionesFollowed by Nerón (1944)
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Idiomas
- También se conoce como
- Three Cockeyed Sailors
- Locaciones de filmación
- Ealing Studios, Ealing, Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(studio: produced at, as A British Picture made at also)
- Productora
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- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 26 minutos
- Color
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Sailors Three (1940) officially released in Canada in English?
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