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{{short description|1940 film by Thomas Bentley}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = The Middle Watch
| image = "The_Middle_Watch"_(1940).jpg
| image_size =
| caption =
| director = [[Thomas Bentley]]
| producer = [[Walter C. Mycroft]]
| writer = [[Ian Hay]] (play) [[Stephen King-Hall]] (play) [[Clifford Grey]] [[J. Lee Thompson]]
| starring = [[Jack Buchanan]] [[Greta Gynt]] [[Fred Emney]] [[Kay Walsh]]
| music =
| cinematography = [[Claude Friese-Greene]]
| editing = [[Monica Kimick]]
| studio = [[Associated British Picture Corporation|ABPC]]
| distributor = [[Pathé Pictures International]]
| released = 11 May 1940
| runtime = 87 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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'''''The Middle Watch''''' is a 1940 British [[comedy film]], directed by [[Thomas Bentley]] and starring [[Jack Buchanan]], [[Greta Gynt]], [[Fred Emney]] and [[Kay Walsh]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090118124219/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/42538?view=cast BFI.org]</ref> It was [[film producer|produced]] by [[Associated British Picture Corporation]] at their [[Welwyn Studios]]. It was based on a play of the same title by [[Ian Hay]] and [[Stephen King-Hall]] which had previously been [[The Middle Watch (1930 film)|adapted as a film in 1930]], and which was [[Girls at Sea (1958 film)|adapted again in 1958]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b05ff97|title=The Middle Watch (1931)}}</ref><ref>http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/76415/Girls-at-Sea/notes.html {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2022}}</ref>

==Synopsis==
This [[comedy film]] features battleship Captain Maitland ([[Jack Buchanan]]) celebrating a [[bon voyage (disambiguation)|bon voyage]] party. He later discovers two [[stowaway]]s, attractive young women, but much too late to turn back. Despite the captain's efforts to hide them, they are soon discovered, with predictable consequences.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/work/the-middle-watch-102245|title = The Middle Watch (1939) - Thomas Bentley | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie}}</ref>

==Cast==
* [[Jack Buchanan]] as Captain Maitland
* [[Greta Gynt]] as Mary Carlton
* [[Fred Emney]] as Admiral Sir Reginald Hewett
* [[Kay Walsh]] as Fay Featon
* [[David Hutcheson]] as Commander Baddeley
* [[Leslie Fuller]] as Marine Ogg
* [[Bruce Seton]] as Captain Randall
* [[Martita Hunt]] as Lady Elizabeth Hewett
* [[Louise Hampton]] as Charlotte Hopkinson
* [[Romney Brent]] as Ah Fong
* [[Jean Gillie]] as Betty Hewett
* [[Ronald Shiner]] as the ship's engineer
* [[Reginald Purdell]] as Corporal Duckett

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* Mackenzie, S. P. ''British War Films, 1939-1945''. Continuum, 2003.

==External links==
* {{AllMovie title|102245}}
* {{BFI|4ce2b6b060265}}
* {{IMDb title|0031644}}

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