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Barnacle Bill
Barnacle Bill (U.S. title: All at Sea) is a 1957 Ealing Studios comedy film directed by Charles Frend and starring Alec Guinness. It was written by T. E. B. Clarke. Guinness plays an unsuccessful Royal Navy officer and six of his maritime ancestors.
Plot
William Horatio Ambrose wants desperately to live up to the proud family naval tradition. Ambrose has a debilitating problem however: he suffers from violent seasickness. As a result, his contribution to the Second World War consists of testing cures for the malady. When he retires from the Royal Navy, he purchases a dilapidated late Victorian era amusement pier (the closest thing to a command of his own) with his life savings. The workers are an apathetic bunch, led by the insolent Figg, who quits as soon as the new owner begins imposing some discipline. With the assistance of his new second-in-command, a former RN rating named Tommy, and much hard work with the help of a group of bored local teenagers, Ambrose soon has the pier repaired.
More details
| author | T. E. B. Clarke |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | England |
| director | Charles Frend |
| editor | Jack Harris |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | amusement pier bath bathing hut beach hut claim compulsory purchase detach dredger flag of convenience hard work peeping tom rat royal navy test victorian era voyeurism world war |
| musicBy | Henry Mancini |
| producer | Michael Balcon |
| productionCompany | Ealing Studios |