During the Cold War, an idiotic R.N. lieutenant, who cannot be fired due to his connections, is transferred from the Admiralty to the far away Mothball Fleet to a rusty destroyer whose crew is running an illegal money-making scheme.
Production Details
Exclusive Films Presents A Byron Film Production
RCA Sound Recording
Made at the New Elstree Studios
Photographed in Hammerscope
Black & White 80 mins
Filming Began: 11th November 1957
UK Release: 2nd June 1958
Studio:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire
Location:
Thomas Ward Ship Breakers, Greys, Essex – Scenes of moored destroyer
Stills from film
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Original Poster
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Footnotes
Although filmed in Hammerscope and released by Exclusive, this film was purely a Byron Film production and not a co-production with Hammer, as is the case with the sequel Further up the Creek, also 1958.
The warship seen in the film was the ‘Berkeley Castle’, an ex Castle Class Corvette of the Royal Navy.
This was popular comedian and “Goon” Peter Sellers first starring role.
David Tomlinson went on to appear in Disney classice Mary Poppins (1964), The Love Bug (1968) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). His final acting appearance was in The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu (1980), which was also the final film of Peter Sellers.