Windbag the Sailor
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
- 7.5
- 1936
- Released
- 1h 27m
Will Hay
Captain Ben Cutlet
Moore Marriott
Harbottle
Norma Varden
Olivia Potter-Porter
Kenneth Warrington
Yates
Dennis Wyndham
Maryatt
Amy Veness
Emma Harbottle
Graham Moffatt
Albert
Peter Gawthorne
Bit Role (uncredited)
George Merritt
Officer on YachtCharles Rolfe
Second DetectiveLeonard Sharp
Crew Member
Harry Terry
Crew MemberPercy Walsh
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Reviews
What shall we do with the drunken sailor? Captain Ben Cutlet likes to spin yarns about all of his (fake) seafaring adventures, one day his false past comes to bite him as he is bluffed into captaining the Rob Roy at sea, the Rob Roy being barely sea worthy and doomed to be wrecked by a crafty shipping agent. Windbag The Sailor is probably most notable for being the first teaming of Will Hay