Rent Jailbirds / Sailors Don't Care (1940)
2.3 of 5 from 49 ratings
2h 27min
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- Synopsis:
- Double bill of British wartime comedies directed by Oswald Mitchell.
Jailbirds (1940)
Charles Hawtrey stars as Nick, a prisoner who escapes along with Bill (Albert Burdon) dressed in drag. Both get jobs in a bakery where they hide some stolen jewellery in a loaf Hawtry at his "campest" best.
Sailors Don't Care (1940)
Boat-building father and Son Nobby Clark (Edward Rigby, Tom Gamble) join the River Patrol service. They are 'vamped' by two nightclub girls who are spies. Manning a listening post on the ship 'Terrific' Joe and Nobby see a parachutist landing in the river with a time bomb in his hands.... - Actors:
- Tom Gamble, Edward Rigby, Jean Gillie, Michael Wilding, Marion Gerth, Mavis Villiers, John Salew, Henry B. Longhurst, G.H. Mulcaster, Dennis Wyndham, Ian Mclean, Joan Hickson, Jack Raine, Albert Burdon, Shaun Glenville, Charles Farrell, Charles Hawtrey, Lorraine Clewes, Sylvia Coleridge, Harry Terry
- Directors:
- Oswald Mitchell
- Producers:
- F.W. Baker
- Writers:
- Oswald Mitchell, Kenneth Horne, W.W. Jacobs, Fred Karno, Con West
- Studio:
- Renown Pictures
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Cinema Afloat: Part 3, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 British War Films (1939-45)
