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{{Infobox film
| name = Alf's Button Afloat
| image = Alf's_Button_Afloat_(1938_film).jpg
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| caption = Original British trade ad
| director = [[Marcel Varnel]]
| producer = [[Edward Black (producer)|Edward Black]]
| writer = [[Marriott Edgar]] [[Val Guest]] [[Ralph Smart]]
| based_on = [[W.A. Darlington]]'s "famous farce" ''[[Alf's Button (novel)|Alf's Button]]''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1c7eCwAAQBAJ&q=Alf%27s+Button+Afloat+denis+gifford&pg=PA480|title=British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film|first=Denis|last=Gifford|date=1 April 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317740636|via=Google Books}}</ref>
| narrator =
| music = [[Charles Williams (composer)|Charles Williams]]
| cinematography = [[Arthur Crabtree]]
| editing = [[R. E. Dearing]] [[Alfred Roome]]
| starring = [[Bud Flanagan]] [[Chesney Allen]] [[Jimmy Nervo]] [[Alastair Sim]]
| studio = [[Gainsborough Pictures]]
| distributor = [[General Film Distributors]] [[Gaumont British Picture Corporation]] (presented by)
| released = {{Film date|1938|07||UK|df=y}}
| runtime = 89 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
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'''''Alf's Button Afloat''''' is a 1938 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Marcel Varnel]] and starring [[Bud Flanagan]], [[Chesney Allen]], [[Jimmy Nervo]], [[Alastair Sim]] and [[Peter Gawthorne]]. In the film, [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|the Crazy Gang]] go to sea, where one of them discovers a button on his uniform is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ea11b7e|title=Alf's Button Afloat (1938)|publisher=}}</ref> The film parodies the 1920 novel ''[[Alf's Button (novel)|Alf's Button]]'' by [[W.A. Darlington]] and its subsequent film adaptations.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://greatwarfiction.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/alfs-button/|title=Alf's Button|date=29 October 2007|publisher=}}</ref>

==Cast==
* [[Bud Flanagan]] as Alf Higgins
* [[Chesney Allen]] as Ches
* [[Jimmy Nervo]] as Cecil
* [[Teddy Knox]] as Teddy
* [[Charlie Naughton]] as Charlie
* [[Jimmy Gold]] as Jimmy
* [[Alastair Sim]] as Eustace
* [[Wally Patch]] as Sergeant Hawkins
* [[Peter Gawthorne]] as Captain Driscol
* [[Agnes Lauchlan]] as Lady Driscol
* [[Glennis Lorimer]] as Frankie Driscol
* James Carney as Lieutenant John Hardy
* [[Wilson Coleman]] as surgeon
* J.H. Roberts as Aladdin
* Bruce Winston as Mustapha
* [[Richard Cooper (actor)|Richard Cooper]] as Lord Wimbledon

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0029853}}

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[[Category:1930s English-language films]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:Seafaring films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Marcel Varnel]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Marriott Edgar]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:1930s British films]]

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