A young couple get involved with a smuggler.A young couple get involved with a smuggler.A young couple get involved with a smuggler.
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Wilfrid Caithness
- Mr. Minch
- (as Wilfred Caithness)
W.E. Holloway
- Chairman of the Bench
- (as W. E. Holloway)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJean Lodge replaced Audrey Hepburn, after delays in starting shooting.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Talkies: Remembering Kenneth More: Part One (2019)
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Messing About in Boats
The first of three aggressively light-hearted comedies attractively shot on location (this time it's the fictitious village of Brampton on the Kent coast) directed for Group Three by former documentarist John Eldridge before he died at the age of just 43.
Yet another British film of the period when postwar shortages invested smuggling with - as a judge dryly puts it - a "spurious aura of adventure and romance", the smuggler this time being a dashing young Kenneth More. But by far the most fascinating performance actually comes from Jean Lodge, plainly in reality haughty and high maintenance, but working jolly hard at being a jaunty good sport in the sort of role usually played by Dinah Sheridan.
Yet another British film of the period when postwar shortages invested smuggling with - as a judge dryly puts it - a "spurious aura of adventure and romance", the smuggler this time being a dashing young Kenneth More. But by far the most fascinating performance actually comes from Jean Lodge, plainly in reality haughty and high maintenance, but working jolly hard at being a jaunty good sport in the sort of role usually played by Dinah Sheridan.
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- richardchatten
- Mar 17, 2021
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Cognac pentru pastor
- Filming locations
- Kingsbridge Estuary, Salcombe, Devon, England, UK(Bill and Petronilla start their journey in their yacht / the customs officers search for clues along the banks of the estuary)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- £40,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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