Alf's Button Afloat
1938 British film
- July 1938 (1938-07) (UK)
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Alf's Button Afloat is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Alastair Sim and Peter Gawthorne. In the film, the Crazy Gang go to sea, where one of them discovers a button on his uniform is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp.[2] The film parodies the 1920 novel Alf's Button by W.A. Darlington and its subsequent film adaptations.[3]
Cast
- Bud Flanagan as Alf Higgins
- Chesney Allen as Ches
- Jimmy Nervo as Cecil
- Teddy Knox as Teddy
- Charlie Naughton as Charlie
- Jimmy Gold as Jimmy
- Alastair Sim as Eustace
- Wally Patch as Sergeant Hawkins
- Peter Gawthorne as Captain Driscol
- Agnes Lauchlan as Lady Driscol
- Glennis Lorimer as Frankie Driscol
- James Carney as Lieutenant John Hardy
- Wilson Coleman as surgeon
- J.H. Roberts as Aladdin
- Bruce Winston as Mustapha
- Richard Cooper as Lord Wimbledon
References
External links
- Alf's Button Afloat at IMDb
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Films directed by Marcel Varnel
- The Silent Witness (1932)
- Chandu the Magician (1932)
- Infernal Machine (1933)
- Freedom of the Seas (1934)
- Girls Will Be Boys (1934)
- Royal Cavalcade (1935)
- Dance Band (1935)
- The Loves of Madame Dubarry (1935)
- No Monkey Business (1935)
- Public Nuisance No. 1 (1936)
- All In (1936)
- Good Morning, Boys (1937)
- O-Kay for Sound (1937)
- Oh, Mr Porter! (1937)
- Convict 99 (1938)
- Alf's Button Afloat (1938)
- Hey! Hey! USA (1938)
- Old Bones of the River (1938)
- Ask a Policeman (1939)
- Where's That Fire? (1939)
- The Frozen Limits (1939)
- Band Waggon (1940)
- Let George Do It! (1940)
- Neutral Port (1940)
- Gasbags (1941)
- The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941)
- Turned Out Nice Again (1941)
- I Thank You (1941)
- South American George (1941)
- Hi Gang! (1941)
- Much Too Shy (1942)
- King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942)
- Get Cracking (1943)
- Bell-Bottom George (1944)
- He Snoops to Conquer (1944)
- I Didn't Do It (1945)
- George in Civvy Street (1946)
- This Man Is Mine (1946)
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