The baby on the battleship
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The baby on the battleship |
| Original title | The Baby and the Battleship |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jay Lewis |
| script | Jay Lewis |
| production | Antony Darnborough |
| music | Humphrey Searle |
| camera | Harry Waxman |
| cut | Manuel Del Campo |
| occupation | |
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The Baby on the Battleship is a 1956 British film directed by Jay Lewis and starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough . The story is based on a novel by Anthony Thorne .
action
The story takes place among British marines in the Mediterranean in the mid-1950s. A group of sailors from a Royal Navy battleship goes ashore to stroll around Naples to visit a friend who runs a bakery here. The man has twelve daughters and, to his great pride and relief, also a young son. So that one of the British sailors can take the eldest daughter, Maria, to an evening stroll followed by a dance, Mr. Papa wants the little son to be taken along. Puncher Roberts has a reputation for not avoiding a duel and also likes to drink one when thirsty. He promises his buddies highly and holy to pull himself together this evening. And yet he is promptly provoked by two sailors from another ship and starts a fight. Meanwhile, his friend Knocker White is dancing with the eldest daughter. Puncher is knocked unconscious during the brawl. When the police arrive, Knocker and his dance partner Maria seek the distance and leave the little boy, the eponymous “Baby”, on the dance floor.
When Puncher regains consciousness, everyone has left, only he and the baby are still there. Since he can neither find his buddy Knocker nor Maria, the child's sister, he unceremoniously smuggles the baby on board his ship and leaves a message in chalk on the quay, in which he informs Knocker that he is "number 13" (i.e. the toddler) on board. Now Puncher has his hands full, because a baby is not self-sufficient: it has to be washed, dried and fed. Since Puncher threatens to grow everything over his head, he asks his sailor buddies on board to help him with the baby. The sailors have their hands full so that none of the high-ranking superiors notices the “stowaway” - and all of this while on the high seas a series of joint military exercises with Allied naval forces are being held off the coast of Italy. Meanwhile, Knocker has returned to her family with Maria, where they are very worried about the missing baby. When Puncher's ship is forced to surrender to superior forces during sea exercises, his self-important captain can take advantage of the baby's presence and cite it as the reason for his defeat. Because of a sense of responsibility, one was not fully operational. The battleship returns to port and the whole family is reunited on board.
Production notes
The Baby and the Battleship premiered on July 10, 1956. The German premiere took place on August 2, 1957.
John Howell designed the film structures, Peter Mullins assisted him. Ronnie Taylor was a simple cameraman under head cameraman Harry Waxman . Muir Mathieson took over the musical direction.
Bryan Forbes also wrote the dialogues.
Antony Darnborough ended his work as a feature film producer after less than nine years with this film.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Puncher Roberts | John Mills | Fritz Tillmann |
| Knocker White | Richard Attenborough | Harry Wüstenhagen |
| Marshal | André Morell | Paul Wagner |
| Professor Evans | Bryan Forbes | Ottokar Runze |
| Captain Hugh | Michael Hordern | Siegfried Schürenberg |
| George | Lionel Jeffries | Alexander Welbat |
| Chief Petty Officer Blades | Harry Locke | Bruno W. Pantel |
| Harry | Gordon Jackson | Heinz Palm |
| gunsmith | Duncan Lamont | Benno Hoffmann |
Reviews
The lexicon of the international film says: “When an Italian baby inadvertently goes on a trip on a British warship during a naval maneuver, some sailors work up a sweat while looking after and hiding the child. Clumsy, funny and undemanding, but a nice film to make you smile. "
The Movie & Video Guide only called the film "somewhat amusing".
Halliwell's Film Guide found there was "a lot of confusion ... but little to laugh about".
Individual evidence
- ↑ The baby on the battleship in the German synchronous file .
- ↑ The baby on the battleship. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 3, 2020 .
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 67.
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 64.
Web links
- The baby on the battleship in the Internet Movie Database (English)