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The Baby and the Battleship is a British film of genre Comedy released in USA on 30 september 1957 with John Mills
The Baby and the Battleship (1956)
The Baby & the Battleship
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Add to a movie listThe 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 a large amount of cooperation with sequences filmed aboard HMS Birmingham and in Malta.
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When a group of Royal Navy sailors go ashore on shore leave to Naples, they are forced to care for a baby, separated from its mother. During a brawl, Puncher Roberts is knocked unconscious and finds the square empty, except for the baby. Unable to find his friend Knocker, or the child's mother, he smuggles the baby aboard their ship in the midst of a series of joint operations with Allied navies off the coast of Italy.Actors
John Mills
(Puncher Roberts)
Richard Attenborough
(Knocker White)
André Morell
(Marshal)
Bryan Forbes
(Prof. Evans)
Michael Hordern
(Capt. Hugh)
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