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{{short description|1937 film by William Beaudine}}
{{More citations needed|date=June 2019}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Windbag the Sailor
| image = Windbagthesailor.JPG
| caption =
| director = [[William Beaudine]]
| producer = [[Michael Balcon]]
| writer = [[Stafford Dickens]] [[George Edgar]] [[Marriott Edgar]] [[Will Hay]]
| narrator =
| starring = [[Will Hay]] [[Moore Marriott]] [[Graham Moffatt]]
| music = [[Charles Williams (composer)|Charles Williams]]
| cinematography = [[Jack E. Cox]]
| editing = [[R. E. Dearing]] [[Terence Fisher]]
| distributor = [[Gainsborough Pictures]]
| released = December 1936
| runtime = 87 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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'''''Windbag the Sailor''''' is a 1936 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[William Beaudine]] and starring [[Will Hay]]. The film marked the first appearance of Hay with [[Graham Moffatt]] and [[Moore Marriott]] acting as his straight men, however both Moffatt and Marriott had previously acted separately in films starring Hay, namely in ''[[Dandy Dick (film)|Dandy Dick]]'' and [[Where There's a Will (1936 film)|''Where There's a Will'']], respectively.

==Plot==
Ben Cutlet is a retired [[barge]] captain who entertains his bar room audience with tales of his alleged days at sea, although his maritime experience extends no further than navigating a coal barge. His tall tales catch him out when he is conned into commanding the unseaworthy ''Rob Roy'' to the [[West Indies]] by a gang of criminals who mean to scuttle the ship for the insurance money. Cutlet gets the upper hand however when he and his companions fall in with West Indian natives who mistake their radio set for a god.

==Cast==
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*[[Will Hay]] as Captain Ben Cutlet
*[[Moore Marriott]] as Jerry Harbottle
*[[Graham Moffatt]] as Albert Brown
*[[Norma Varden]] as Olivia Potter-Porter
*Kenneth Warrington as Yates
*[[Dennis Wyndham]] as Jim Maryatt
*[[Amy Veness]] as Emma Harbottle
*[[Leonard Sharp (actor)|Leonard Sharp]] as Crew member
{{div col end}}

==Reception==
Writing for ''[[The Spectator]]'' in 1937, [[Graham Greene]] gave the film a good review, recommending it to "those under sixteen". Greene praised Beaudine for his "admirabl[e] direct[ion]", and noted that Hay "has never had a better part than that of Captain Ben Cutlett".<ref>{{cite journal |last= Greene|first= Graham|author-link= Graham Greene|date= 1 January 1937|title= The Jungle Princess/Windbag the Sailor|journal= [[The Spectator]]}} (reprinted in: {{cite book|editor-last= Taylor|editor-first= John Russell|editor-link= John Russell Taylor|date= 1980|title= The Pleasure Dome|url= https://archive.org/details/pleasuredomegrah00gree/page/127|publisher= Oxford University Press|page= [https://archive.org/details/pleasuredomegrah00gree/page/127 127]|isbn= 0192812866}})</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0028509|title=Windbag the Sailor}}

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{{michael Balcon}}

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