Windbag the Sailor

Windbag the Sailor

Directed by	William Beaudine
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Written by	Stafford Dickens George Edgar Marriott Edgar Will Hay
Starring	Will Hay Moore Marriott Graham Moffatt
Music by	Charles Williams
Cinematography	Jack E. Cox
Edited by	R.E. Dearing Terence Fisher
Distributed by	Gainsborough Pictures
Release dates	December 1936
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Windbag the Sailor (1936) is a British comedy film directed by William Beaudine, starring Will Hay in the title role. The film marked the first appearance of the famous team of Hay, Moffatt and Marriott.

Plot

Ben Cutlet (Will Hay) is a sea captain who entertains his bar room audience with tales of his days at sea, although his maritime experience extent is only the navigating of a coal barge. His tall tales catch him out when he is conned into commanding the Rob Roy, an unseaworthy ship, to the West Indies by a gang of criminals who mean to scuttle the ship for the insurance money.

Cast

Will Hay as Captain Ben Cutlet
Moore Marriott as Jerry Harbottle
Graham Moffatt as Albert
Norma Varden as Olivia Potter-Porter
Kenneth Warrington as Yates
Dennis Wyndham as Jim Maryatt
Amy Veness as Emma Harbottle
Leonard Sharp as Crew member

External links

Windbag the Sailor at the Internet Movie Database

Screenplays by Marriott Edgar

Screenplays	Windbag the Sailor (1936) Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) Good Morning, Boys (1937) Said O'Reilly to McNab (1937) Convict 99 (1938) Alf's Button Afloat (1938) Old Bones of the River (1938) Ask a Policeman (1939) The Frozen Limits (1939) Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940) Band Waggon (1940) Where's That Fire? (1940) The Ghost Train (1941) Gasbags (1941) I Thank You (1941) Back-Room Boy (1942) King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942) Miss London Ltd. (1943) Bees in Paradise (1944)

Family	Edgar Wallace (half-brother)

Films directed by William Beaudine

1920s-30s	Watch Your Step (1922) Catch My Smoke (1922) Heroes of the Street (1922) Her Fatal Millions (1923) Penrod and Sam (1923) The Printer's Devil (1923) The Country Kid (1923) Boy of Mine (1923) Daring Youth (1924) Wandering Husbands (1924) Daughters of Pleasure (1924) A Self-Made Failure (1924) Cornered (1924) Lover's Lane (1924) (unconfirmed) The Narrow Street (1925) A Broadway Butterfly (1925) How Baxter Butted In (1925) Little Annie Rooney (1925) That's My Baby (1926) Sparrows (1926) The Social Highwayman (1926) The Canadian (1926) Frisco Sally Levy (1927) The Life of Riley (1927) The Irresistible Lover (1927) The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris (1928) Heart to Heart (1928) Home, James (1928) Do Your Duty (1928) Give and Take (1928) Fugitives (1929) Two Weeks Off (1929) Hard to Get (1929) The Girl from Woolworth's (1929) Wedding Rings (1929) Those Who Dance (1930) Road to Paradise (1930) Father's Son (1931) Misbehaving Ladies (1931) The Lady Who Dared (1931) The Mad Parade (1931) Penrod and Sam (1931) Men in Her Life (1931) Three Wise Girls (1932) Make Me a Star (1932) The Crime of the Century (1933) Her Bodyguard (1933) The Old Fashioned Way (1934)

British films	Two Hearts in Harmony (1935) So You Won't Talk (1935) Dandy Dick (1935) Boys Will Be Boys (1935) Get Off My Foot (1935) Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk (1935) Where There's a Will (1936) Educated Evans (1936) It's in the Bag (1936) Windbag the Sailor (1936) Feather Your Nest (1937) Said O'Reilly to McNab (1937) Take It from Me (1937)

1930s-40s	Torchy Gets Her Man (1938) Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939) She Done Him Right (1940) Four Shall Die (1940) Misbehaving Husbands (1940) Up Jumped the Devil (1941) Emergency Landing (1941) Mr. Washington Goes to Town (1941) Federal Fugitives (1941) Desperate Cargo (1941) Mr. Celebrity (1941) The Miracle Kid (1941) Blonde Comet (1941) Duke of the Navy (1942) Broadway Big Shot (1942) Lucky Ghost (1942) Professor Creeps (1942) The Panther's Claw (1942) Men of San Quentin (1942) Gallant Lady (1942) One Thrilling Night (1942) Phantom Killer (1942) Foreign Agent (1942) The Living Ghost (1942) The Ape Man (1943) Clancy Street Boys (1943) Spotlight Scandals (1943) Ghosts on the Loose (1943) Here Comes Kelly (1943) Mr. Muggs Steps Out (1943) Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943) What a Man! (1944) Voodoo Man (1944) Hot Rhythm (1944) Detective Kitty O'Day (1944) Follow the Leader (1944) Leave It to the Irish (1944) Oh, What a Night (1944) Shadow of Suspicion (1944) Bowery Champs (1944) Crazy Knights (1944) Mom and Dad (1945) Adventures of Kitty O'Day (1945) Fashion Model (1945) Blonde Ransom (1945) Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945) Come Out Fighting (1945) Black Market Babies (1945) Girl on the Spot (1946) The Face of Marble (1946) One Exciting Week (1946) Don't Gamble with Strangers (1946) Below the Deadline (1946) Spook Busters (1946) Mr. Hex (1946) Philo Vance Returns (1947) Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947) Too Many Winners (1947) Killer at Large (1947) Gas House Kids Go West (1947) News Hounds (1947) Bowery Buckaroos (1947) The Chinese Ring (1947) Angels' Alley (1947) Jinx Money (1948) The Shanghai Chest (1948) The Golden Eye (1948) Smugglers' Cove (1948) Incident (1948) Kidnapped (1948) Jiggs and Maggie in Court (1948) The Feathered Serpent (1948) The Lawton Story (1949) Tuna Clipper (1949) Forgotten Women (1949) Trail of the Yukon (1949) Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters (1949) Tough Assignment (1949)

1950s-60s	Blue Grass of Kentucky (1950) Blonde Dynamite (1950) Jiggs and Maggie Out West (1950) Lucky Losers (1950) County Fair (1950) Second Chance (1950) Blues Busters (1950) Bowery Battalion (1951) Cuban Fireball (1951) Ghost Chasers (1951) Let's Go Navy! (1951) Havana Rose (1951) Crazy Over Horses (1951) Rodeo (1952) Hold That Line (1952) Jet Job (1952) Here Come the Marines (1952) The Rose Bowl Story (1952) Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952) Feudin' Fools (1952) No Holds Barred (1952) Jalopy (1953) Born to the Saddle (1953) Roar of the Crowd (1953) Murder Without Tears (1953) Yukon Vengeance (1954) Paris Playboys (1954) Pride of the Blue Grass (1954) High Society (1955) Jail Busters (1955) Westward Ho the Wagons! (1956) Up in Smoke (1957) In the Money (1958) Ten Who Dared (1960) Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966) Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)

Films produced by Michael Balcon

1920s	The Rat (1925) The Sea Urchin (1926) The Triumph of the Rat (1926) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926) The Mountain Eagle (1926) Blighty (1927) Downhill (1927) The Rolling Road (1927) Easy Virtue (1927) One of the Best (1927) The Vortex (1927) A South Sea Bubble (1928) A Light Woman (1928) The First Born (1928) The Wrecker (1929) The Return of the Rat (1929) City of Play (1929) Taxi for Two (1929) Woman to Woman (1929)

1930s	Jack's the Boy (1932) I Was a Spy (1933) It's a Boy (1933) Friday the Thirteenth (1933) Princess Charming (1934) Evergreen (1934) Red Ensign (1934) Along Came Sally (1934) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) Car of Dreams (1935) First a Girl (1935) Me and Marlborough (1935) The 39 Steps (1935) Stormy Weather (1935) Things Are Looking Up (1935) The First Offence (1936) Tudor Rose (1936) The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) Secret Agent (1936) Where There's a Will (1936) Windbag the Sailor (1936) Doctor Syn (1937) A Yank at Oxford (1938) The Gaunt Stranger (1938) The Four Just Men (1939) Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)

1940s	Let George Do It! (1940) The Proud Valley (1940) The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941) Ships with Wings (1941) Turned Out Nice Again (1941) The Big Blockade (1942) Went the Day Well? (1942) The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942) My Learned Friend (1943) The Foreman Went to France (1942) Undercover (1943) The Bells Go Down (1943) San Demetrio London (1943) Nine Men (1943) For Those in Peril (1944) Champagne Charlie (1944) The Halfway House (1944) Fiddlers Three (1944) Dead of Night (1945) Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) They Came to a City (1945) Johnny Frenchman (1945) The Captive Heart (1946) The Overlanders (1946) Hue and Cry (1947) It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) Frieda (1947) Against the Wind (1948) Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) Scott of the Antarctic (1948) Passport to Pimlico (1949) Whisky Galore! (1949) A Run for Your Money (1949) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

1950s	Cage of Gold (1950) The Blue Lamp (1950) The Magnet (1950) The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Pool of London (1951) The Man in the White Suit (1951) Mandy (1952) The Cruel Sea (1953) The Ladykillers (1953) The Maggie (1954) The Night My Number Came Up (1955) Touch and Go (1955) The Long Arm (1956) Barnacle Bill (1957) The Man in the Sky (1957) The Shiralee (1957) Dunkirk (1958) The Siege of Pinchgut (1959) The Scapegoat (1959) The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)

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