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'''''The Navy Lark''''' is a [[1959 in film|1959]] British [[comedy film]] based on the ''[[The Navy Lark]]'' radio series broadcast on the [[BBC Light Programme]].<ref name = "nyt">{{cite web | url = http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/103688/The-Navy-Lark/overview | work = New York Times | title = The Navy Lark (1959)| accessdate=2008-08-30}}</ref> It featured [[Cecil Parker]], [[Ronald Shiner]] and [[Leslie Phillips]], [[Gordon Jackson (actor)|Gordon Jackson]] and [[Hattie Jacques]]. It was filmed mainly at [[West Bay, Dorset|West Bay]], [[Bridport]], [[Dorset]]. Only Phillips had appeared from the radio version - all other parts were recast.<ref name="hello">''Hello: The Autobiography'', Leslie Phillips, Orion, 2006</ref> |
'''''The Navy Lark''''' is a [[1959 in film|1959]] British [[comedy film]] based on the ''[[The Navy Lark]]'' radio series broadcast on the [[BBC Light Programme]].<ref name = "nyt">{{cite web | url = http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/103688/The-Navy-Lark/overview | work = New York Times | title = The Navy Lark (1959)| accessdate=2008-08-30}}</ref> It featured [[Cecil Parker]], [[Ronald Shiner]] and [[Leslie Phillips]], [[Gordon Jackson (actor)|Gordon Jackson]] and [[Hattie Jacques]]. It was filmed mainly at [[West Bay, Dorset|West Bay]], [[Bridport]], [[Dorset]]. Only Phillips had appeared from the radio version - all other parts were recast.<ref name="hello">''Hello: The Autobiography'', Leslie Phillips, Orion, 2006</ref> The film was produced at Walton-on-Thames. |
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==Overview== |
==Overview== |
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Captain Povey has built up a reputation for shutting down redundant naval bases and now has his eye on the minesweeping detachment on Boonzey island (55.5 miles from Portsmouth, a Channel Island). Arriving on inspection, he is told tales of finding many mines in the sea there and not believing them goes out on the Compton minesweeper. The crew were supposed to find "Bessy", a mine shaped object used to collect Lifeboat funds but found a real mine instead, which Pouter bashes about in an effort to take it apart. Released, it explodes nearby and this convinces Povey that the incompetents there are not up to the job and he decides on using a competent crew to do the job. |
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In an endeavour to remain stationed on the Isle of Boonzey, the team organize a revolutionary uprising. |
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CPO Banyard uses his "Polson's Fulminator Mark III" trick (it does not exist) to delay their decommissioning and what started off as a thin folder goes around the military offices and comes back to Povey's office as a mountain of paper work. He sees through it and goes back to the island only to be told there has been an outbreak of "Yellow Fever" there. He is taken in and leaves but decides to return and the trick is revealed as life is back to normal there. Now more than ever he is determined to shut them all down. |
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Gaston Higgins, a Frenchman, owns the local bar and when he gets drunk he talks of revolution and kicking the British off of the island. They decide to use him and say they are under siege from revolutionaries. Povey knows this is another trick and officially gives them three days to leave the island, but his bosses and the government believe the story when they get reports from a reporter, Lt Binns, who was sent there to take photographs. Questions are asked by the British and French governments and Povey's career is on the line as he is told to sort this out as the British do not run from the French. |
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Povey goes to the island and a fake attack on Gaston and his men is launched but Povey finds out it was all a hoax. Ready to hand out court martials all round, Povey is confronted with a picture Binns took of him leading an all out attack on what is now known to be a hoax, which will be front page news across the world tomorrow. Stanton talks him into seeing sense and Povey, with his career in tatters if it gets out, tears up his report. He leaves and life goes back to normal on the island. On the way back to Portsmouth, their boat hits another real sea mine and Povey, Binns and the others are left to swim back to base. |
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==Cast== |
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* [[Ronald Shiner]] as Chief Petty Officer Banyad |
* [[Ronald Shiner]] as Chief Petty Officer Banyad |
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* [[Leslie Phillips]] as Lieutenant Pouter |
* [[Leslie Phillips]] as Lieutenant Pouter |
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* [[Elvi Hale]] as Leading WREN Heather |
* [[Elvi Hale]] as Leading WREN Heather Stark |
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* [[Nicholas Phipps]] as Captain Povey |
* [[Nicholas Phipps]] as Captain Povey |
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* [[Cardew Robinson]] as Lieutenant Binns |
* [[Cardew Robinson]] as Lieutenant Binns |
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Revision as of 18:30, 18 December 2013
| The Navy Lark | |
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| Directed by | Gordon Parry |
| Written by | Laurie Wyman Sid Colin |
| Produced by | Herbert Wilcox |
| Cinematography | Gordon Dines |
| Edited by | Basil Warren |
| Music by | Tommy Reilly |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox |
Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Navy Lark is a 1959 British comedy film based on the The Navy Lark radio series broadcast on the BBC Light Programme.[1] It featured Cecil Parker, Ronald Shiner and Leslie Phillips, Gordon Jackson and Hattie Jacques. It was filmed mainly at West Bay, Bridport, Dorset. Only Phillips had appeared from the radio version - all other parts were recast.[2] The film was produced at Walton-on-Thames.
Overview
Captain Povey has built up a reputation for shutting down redundant naval bases and now has his eye on the minesweeping detachment on Boonzey island (55.5 miles from Portsmouth, a Channel Island). Arriving on inspection, he is told tales of finding many mines in the sea there and not believing them goes out on the Compton minesweeper. The crew were supposed to find "Bessy", a mine shaped object used to collect Lifeboat funds but found a real mine instead, which Pouter bashes about in an effort to take it apart. Released, it explodes nearby and this convinces Povey that the incompetents there are not up to the job and he decides on using a competent crew to do the job.
CPO Banyard uses his "Polson's Fulminator Mark III" trick (it does not exist) to delay their decommissioning and what started off as a thin folder goes around the military offices and comes back to Povey's office as a mountain of paper work. He sees through it and goes back to the island only to be told there has been an outbreak of "Yellow Fever" there. He is taken in and leaves but decides to return and the trick is revealed as life is back to normal there. Now more than ever he is determined to shut them all down.
Gaston Higgins, a Frenchman, owns the local bar and when he gets drunk he talks of revolution and kicking the British off of the island. They decide to use him and say they are under siege from revolutionaries. Povey knows this is another trick and officially gives them three days to leave the island, but his bosses and the government believe the story when they get reports from a reporter, Lt Binns, who was sent there to take photographs. Questions are asked by the British and French governments and Povey's career is on the line as he is told to sort this out as the British do not run from the French.
Povey goes to the island and a fake attack on Gaston and his men is launched but Povey finds out it was all a hoax. Ready to hand out court martials all round, Povey is confronted with a picture Binns took of him leading an all out attack on what is now known to be a hoax, which will be front page news across the world tomorrow. Stanton talks him into seeing sense and Povey, with his career in tatters if it gets out, tears up his report. He leaves and life goes back to normal on the island. On the way back to Portsmouth, their boat hits another real sea mine and Povey, Binns and the others are left to swim back to base.
Cast
- Cecil Parker as Commander Stanton
- Ronald Shiner as Chief Petty Officer Banyad
- Leslie Phillips as Lieutenant Pouter
- Elvi Hale as Leading WREN Heather Stark
- Nicholas Phipps as Captain Povey
- Cardew Robinson as Lieutenant Binns
- Gordon Jackson as Leading Seaman Johnson
- Harold Kasket as Gaston Higgins
- Hattie Jacques as Fortune Teller
- Reginald Beckwith as CNI
- Kenneth J. Warren as Brown
- Wanda Ventham as Mabel
- Richard Coleman as Lieutenant Bates
- Llewellyn Rees as Admiral Troutbridge
- Clive Morton as Rear Admiral
- Gordon Harris as Group Captain
- Van Boolen as Fred
- Gordon Whiting as Commander
- Tom Gill as Naval Commander
- Walter Hudd as Naval Captain
References
- ^ "The Navy Lark (1959)". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-30.
- ^ Hello: The Autobiography, Leslie Phillips, Orion, 2006
External links
- The Navy Lark at IMDb
- The Sea Mine Clip from YouTube
- The plot from YouTube
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