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	\| caption = ~~Australian daybill poster~~
	\| director = [[Walter Forde]]		\| director = [[Walter Forde]]
	\| producer = [[Michael Balcon]]		\| producer = [[Michael Balcon]]

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	==Critical response==		==Critical response==
	* ''[[TV Guide]]'' called it "a funny comedy from the propagandistic Ealing studios".<ref name="tvguide1"/>		* ''[[w:TV Guide\|TV Guide]]'' called it "a funny comedy from the propagandistic Ealing studios".<ref name="tvguide1"/>
	*Britmovie concluded director "[[Walter Forde]]’s music-hall training enabled him to see that the gags were well-timed."<ref name="britmovie1"/>		*Britmovie concluded director "[[w:Walter Forde\|Walter Forde]]’s music-hall training enabled him to see that the gags were well-timed."<ref name="britmovie1"/>
	*In the [[BFI screenonline]], John Oliver writes, "Trinder may have made more distinguished films at Ealing, but Sailors Three was not only a promising start at the studio but the film that would remain his most successful outright comedy."<ref name="screenonline1"/>		*In the [[w:BFI screenonline\|BFI screenonline]], John Oliver writes, "''Trinder may have made more distinguished films at Ealing, but Sailors Three was not only a promising start at the studio but the film that would remain his most successful outright comedy.''"<ref name="screenonline1"/>

	==References==		==References==

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{{Infobox film
| name = Sailors Three
| image = "Sailors_Three"_(19400.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Australian daybill poster
| director = [[Walter Forde]]
| producer = [[Michael Balcon]]
| writer = {{ubl|[[Austin Melford]]|[[John Dighton]]|[[Angus MacPhail]]}}
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|[[Tommy Trinder]]|[[Claude Hulbert]]|[[Carla Lehmann]]}}
| music = [[Ernest Irving]]
| cinematography = [[Günther Krampf]]
| editing = [[Ray Pitt]]
| studio = [[Ealing Studios]]
| distributor = [[Associated British Film Distributors|Associated British]]
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1940|12|14|UK}}
| runtime = 86 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}

'''''Sailors Three''''' (released in the US as '''''Three Cockeyed Sailors'''''<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033158/releaseinfo IMDb: ''Sailors Three - release info''] Linked 2015-10-30</ref>) is a 1940 British [[war film|war]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Walter Forde]] and starring [[Tommy Trinder]], [[Claude Hulbert]] and [[Carla Lehmann]]. This was cockney music hall comedian Trinder's debut for [[Ealing Studios|Ealing]], the studio with which he was to become most closely associated.<ref name="screenonline1">{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/811645/index.html |title=BFI Screenonline: Sailors Three (1940) |publisher=Screenonline.org.uk |access-date=2014-02-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/49203 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114021630/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/49203 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-01-14 |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | SAILORS THREE (1940) |publisher=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |date=2009-04-16 |access-date=2014-02-22}}</ref> It concerns three British sailors who accidentally find themselves aboard a German ship during the [[Second World War]].

Detailed surveys published in Britain in the early years of the war by the "[[Mass-Observation]]" organisation, showed the popularity of comedy with wartime cinema audiences. Films with the war as a subject were particularly well received, especially those movies showing the lighter side of service life, largely because many in the audience would soon be finding themselves in uniform. John Oliver writes in [[BFI screenonline]], " to prepare such potential recruits for their own possible riotous and fun-packed life in the Royal Navy, [[Sandy Powell (comedian)|Sandy Powell]] had already taken the shilling in [[All at Sea (1940 film)|''All At Sea'']] (dir. [[Herbert Smith (producer)|Herbert Smith]], 1939) before Tommy Trinder did likewise with ''Sailors Three'', following his comic misadventures in the army in ''[[Laugh It Off (1940 film)|Laugh It Off]]'' (dir. [[John Baxter (director)|John Baxter]]) earlier that same year."<ref name="screenonline1"/>

The song "All Over The Place" (words by [[Frank Eyton]]; music by [[Noel Gay]]), sung by Trinder in the film, became one of the most popular of the war.<ref>Based on sheet music sales.</ref>

==Plot==
During the Second World War, three Royal Navy sailors on a drunken spree in a Brazilian neutral port mistake a German ship for their own and climb aboard. It turns out to be a [[pocket battleship]], the ''Ludendorff'', and to the credit of the Royal Navy, the trio manages to capture the ship and all the Germans on board.<ref name="britmovie1">{{cite web|url=http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Sailors-Three_1940/ |title=Sailors Three 1940 | Britmovie | Home of British Films |publisher=Britmovie |access-date=2014-02-22}}</ref><ref name="tvguide1">{{cite web|url=http://movies.tvguide.com/three-cockeyed-sailors/review/120433 |title=Three Cockeyed Sailors Review |publisher=Movies.tvguide.com |access-date=2014-02-22}}</ref>

==Cast==
* [[Tommy Trinder]] as Tommy Taylor
* [[Claude Hulbert]] as Llewellyn Davies, 'The Admiral'
* [[Carla Lehmann]] as Jane Davies
* [[Michael Wilding]] as Johnny Meadows
* [[James Hayter (actor)|James Hayter]] as Hans Muller
* [[Jeanne de Casalis]] as Mrs Pilkington
* [[Henry Charles Hewitt (actor)|Henry Hewitt]] as Professor Pilkington
* Brian Fitzpatrick as Digby Pilkington
* [[John Laurie]] as McNab
* [[Harold Warrender]] as Pilot's Mate
* [[Eric Clavering]] as Bartender
* [[John Glyn-Jones]] as Best Man
* [[John Wengraf]] as German Captain
* [[Manning Whiley]] as German Commander
* Victor Fairley as German Petty Officer
* [[Alec Clunes]] as British Pilot
* [[Derek Elphinstone]] as British Observer
* [[E.V.H. Emmett]] as Newsreel Commentator (uncredited)

==Critical response==
* ''[[TV Guide]]'' called it "a funny comedy from the propagandistic Ealing studios".<ref name="tvguide1"/>
*Britmovie concluded director "[[Walter Forde]]’s music-hall training enabled him to see that the gags were well-timed."<ref name="britmovie1"/>
*In the [[BFI screenonline]], John Oliver writes, "Trinder may have made more distinguished films at Ealing, but Sailors Three was not only a promising start at the studio but the film that would remain his most successful outright comedy."<ref name="screenonline1"/>

==References==
<references />

==External links==
* {{IMDb title| 0033158 }}
* {{BFI Screenonline title| 811645 }}

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[[Category:World War II films made in wartime]]
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