Release Date

13 Dec, 1960

Runtime

01:37: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

From The Army's Funniest Private...To The Navy's Most Riotous Seaman!

Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is saved from jumping off a cliff at 'Lover's Leap' by a Royal Navy petty officer. He persuades Puckle to join the Royal Navy, where he'll meet 'lots of girls'. Life in the Navy proves not to be as rosy as it's been described, and Puckle fails at every task during basic training. But despite this, he's regarded by the Admiral in charge of a rocket project to be a 'typical average British sailor', and chosen to be the first man to fly into outer space in an experimental rocket.

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Actors

Norman Wisdom

Ian Hunter

David Lodge

John Le Mesurier

Terence Alexander

Michael Caine

Oliver Reed

Robert Urquhart

Edward Chapman

Liz Fraser

Penny Morrell

Claire Gordon

Julie Shearing

Sheila Hancock

Rosamund Lesley

Frank Williams

Johnny Briggs

John Arnatt

Crew

Robert Asher

Jack Asher

Norman Wisdom

Jack Davies

Henry Blyth