All Hands

All Hands

11 mins | Comedy, War | May 31, 1940

From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators. This Ealing Studios production features well-known 1940s actor John Mills, playing a sailor whose girlfriend thoughtlessly blunders away vital wartime secrets. The consequences prove disastrous when his boat next leaves to cross the English Channel.

All Hands

11 mins | Comedy, War | May 31, 1940

All Hands
From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators. This Ealing Studios production features well-known 1940s actor John Mills, playing a sailor whose girlfriend thoughtlessly blunders away vital wartime secrets. The consequences prove disastrous when his boat next leaves to cross the English Channel.
Producers Ealing Studios, Ministry of Information
Original title All Hands
Directors John Paddy Carstairs
Writers John Paddy Carstairs

Cast

John Mills

as Jack

Leueen MacGrath

as Joan

Eliot Makeham

as Spy

Gertrude Musgrove

as Waitress

Carl Jaffe

as Captain

Annie Esmond

as Café Manageress

John Wengraf

as German