Why Sailors Leave Home

1930 film

Why Sailors Leave Home is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Leslie Fuller, Peter Bernard and Eve Gray.[1] The screenplay concerns a British sailor on shore leave in the Middle East who ends up being mistaken for a Sheikh.[2]

Cast

  • Leslie Fuller - Bill Biggles
  • Peter Bernard - George
  • Eve Gray - Slave Girl
  • Gladys Cruickshank - Slave Girl
  • Dmitri Vetter - Multhasa
  • Frank Melroyd - Captain
  • Syd Courtenay - Sheik Sidi Ben
  • Lola Harvey - Maya
  • Jean Ross - Slave Girl
  • Marika Rökk - Slave Girl

References

  1. ^ BFI.org
  2. ^ Sutton p.106

Bibliography

  • Sutton, David R. A chorus of raspberries: British film comedy 1929-1939. University of Exeter Press, 2000.

External links

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