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{{Infobox film
| name = Watch It, Sailor!
| image = Watch_it,_Sailor!_(1961_film).jpg
| caption = British quad poster
| director = [[Wolf Rilla]]
| producer = [[Maurice Cowan]]
| screenplay = [[Falkland Cary|Falkland L. Cary]] [[Philip King (playwright)|Philip King]]
| based_on = play ''Watch It, Sailor!'' by Falkland Cary & Philip King
| starring = [[Dennis Price]] [[Liz Fraser]] [[Irene Handl]]
| music = [[Douglas Gamley]]
| cinematography = [[Arthur Grant (cinematographer)|Arthur Grant]]
| editing = [[James Needs]] Alfred Cox
| studio = Maurice Cowan Productions (for) (as Cormorant) [[Hammer Film Productions]]
| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures Corporation]] {{small|(UK)}}
| released = {{Film date|1961|07||London, UK|df=y}}
| runtime = 81 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
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'''''Watch it, Sailor!''''' is a 1961 black and white British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Wolf Rilla]] and starring [[Dennis Price]], [[Liz Fraser]] and [[Irene Handl]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/57238 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113222201/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/57238 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-01-13 |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | WATCH IT SAILOR! (1961) |publisher=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |date=2009-04-16 |accessdate=2013-07-22}}</ref> It was based on the 1960 play of the same name by [[Falkland Cary|Falkland L. Cary]] and [[Philip King (playwright)|Philip King]], which was a sequel to their earlier play, ''[[Sailor Beware! (play)|Sailor Beware]]'', and was [[Sailor Beware! (1956 film)|filmed in 1956]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jul/24/watch-it-sailor-vertical-hour-theatre-by-the-lake-keswick-review|title=Watch It, Sailor! / The Vertical Hour review – trouble with the in-laws|first=Clare|last=Brennan|date=24 July 2016|publisher=|via=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.samuelfrench.co.uk/p/56555/watch-it-sailor|title=Watch It, Sailor!|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b4db4b0|title=Sailor Beware (1956)|publisher=}}</ref>

It was shot at [[Hammer Films|Hammer]]'s [[Bray Studios (UK)|Bray Studios]] in [[Berkshire]]. The sets were designed by the [[art director]]s [[Bernard Robinson (production designer)|Bernard Robinson]] and [[Don Mingaye]].

==Premise==
Albert, a sailor, returns home to Britain to marry his fiancée. He is getting drunk at a bar rather than going to the ceremony. A drunk at the bar explains the horror of the [[mother-in-law]] syndrome. He eventually leaves with his sailor companion Carnoustie and gets in a car to go to the ceremony but the car (an [[Austin Six]]) breaks down. They run to the church but the vicar has postponed the wedding to do a funeral..

Everyone is waiting in the church. The bride Shirley chats with her mother. Meanwhile her father Henry is latest of all and enters the pub which the sailors left and starts to get drunk.

Back at the bride's home the maid of honour, Daphne, says she is going back to the church to see Carnoustie.

However a telegram is received from Lt Comm Hardcastle saying the wedding cannot proceed for legal reasons.

Albert and Carnoustie are now at the church with the vicar and organist.

==Cast==
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* [[Dennis Price]] as Lt. Cmdr Hardcastle
* [[Liz Fraser]] as Daphne Pink
* [[Irene Handl]] as Edie Hornett the bride's aunt
* [[Vera Day]] as Shirley Hornett
* [[Graham Stark]] as Carnoustie Bligh
* [[John Meillon]] as Albert Tufnell
* [[Marjorie Rhodes]] as Emma Hornett
* [[Cyril Smith (actor)|Cyril Smith]] as Henry Hornett
* [[Frankie Howerd]] as Church Organist
* [[Miriam Karlin]] as Mrs. Lack
* [[Arthur Howard]] as Vicar
* [[Renée Houston]] as Mrs. Mottram
* [[Brian Reece]] as Solicitor
* [[Bobby Howes]] as Drunk
* [[Harry Locke]] as Ticket Collector
* [[William Mervyn]] as Ship's Captain
* [[Marianne Stone]] as Woman with Child
* Diane Aubrey as Barmaid
{{div col end}}

==Critical reception==
The ''[[Radio Times]]'' wrote, "A host of familiar British comedy talent fill out the cast including Irene Handl, Miriam Karlin and Frankie Howerd...this is unexceptional, though some enjoyment can be found watching the old pros go through their paces";<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/cctfh/watch-it-sailor|title=Watch It, Sailor! - Film from RadioTimes|publisher=}}</ref> and ''[[Allmovie]]'' wrote, "the two great scene-stealers in this comedy of errors are Irene Handl as the bride's eccentric (okay, she's just plain dotty) aunt, whose ramblings have a surreal quality; and Dennis Price as the droll-witted officer who is forced by orders to interfere with the impending marriage, and then ordered to make it right. With the cock of an eye-brow or the slight curl of a lip, before he even utters a line, Price dominates every scene in which he appears, and even if the rest of the movie weren't as funny as it is, his performance would be worth the price of admission."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/watch-it-sailor-v116044/review|title=Watch It, Sailor? (1961) - Wolf Rilla - Review - AllMovie|publisher=}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0055613}}

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