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I've been trying to buy this film for years after seeing it on TV once, it was billed as 'All at sea" found out that the title had been changed to Barnacle Bill Watched it over Christmas with my husband and it was as funny and entertaining as I remembered it, really good understated performance from Alec Guinness, superb The film has the usual Ealing Studio questioning the morality from people in charge of the great unwashed, and how the main characters always find a clever way around the conundrum
This second rate British film from the fifties was not purchased for the acting qualities although the film does have a story line and is entertaining. The pier on which the filming took place was at Hunstanton in Norfolk, the pier was swept away by a violent storm a couple of years later and only a few steel pilars are still now visible. Many of the scenes from the pier, portray the greenswold on the hill in front of the town shopping area of that time. It is now more commercialised but maintains that east Anglian quality of quaintness and calm. Having visited the area this year and remembering the film from my boyhood days, it seemed only right to track a copy and take a trip down memory lane. This was realy worthwhile, I was amazed that the film was still remembered and that a copy was available from the archives. It was also reasonably cheap and well worth a re-run of days gone by. Most enjoyable, would repeat this process if other memories could be rekindled.Read full review
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