Sailor Beware

Sailor Beware

81 mins | Comedy | Sept. 4, 1956

Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,raised in an orphanage,and he and best man Carnoustie stay with the Hornetts on the eve of the wedding, though Emma makes sure the stag night is a brief one. Next day Albert fails to show up for the wedding. He eventually turns up at the house and confides in the vicar that if family life is anything like the Hornetts he wants no part of it. When the Hornetts are told this Emma declares that she sees that has been a "very wicked woman" and will mend her ways but, as the young couple eventually marry and move into their own house , one wonders how long her change of heart will last.

Sailor Beware

81 mins | Comedy | Sept. 4, 1956

Sailor Beware
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,raised in an orphanage,and he and best man Carnoustie stay with the Hornetts on the eve of the wedding, though Emma makes sure the stag night is a brief one. Next day Albert fails to show up for the wedding. He eventually turns up at the house and confides in the vicar that if family life is anything like the Hornetts he wants no part of it. When the Hornetts are told this Emma declares that she sees that has been a "very wicked woman" and will mend her ways but, as the young couple eventually marry and move into their own house , one wonders how long her change of heart will last.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Romulus Films, Remus
Original title Sailor Beware
Directors Gordon Parry
Writers Philip King, Falkland L. Cary

Cast

Peggy Mount

as Emma Hornett

Shirley Eaton

as Shirley Hornett

Ronald Lewis

as Albert Tuffnell

Cyril Smith

as Henry Hornett

Esma Cannon

as Edie Hornett

Gordon Jackson

as Carnoustie Bligh

Geoffrey Keen

as Rev Mr. Purefoy

Thora Hird

as Mrs Lack

Joy Webster

as Daphne Pink

Eliot Makeham

as Uncle Brummell

Fred Griffiths

as Taxi Driver

Edie Martin

as Little Woman In Church

Barbara Hicks

as Little Girl's Mother

Alfie Bass

as Organist (Uncredited)

Michael Caine

as Sailor (Uncredited)

Paul Eddington

as Bearded Sailor (Uncredited)