The Baby and the Battleship

(1956)

96 minutes

Comedy

Directed by Jay Lewis

Cast:

John Mills as Puncher Roberts
Richard Attenborough as Knocker White
André Morell as Marshal
Bryan Forbes as Professor Evans
Michael Hordern as Captain Hugh
Ernest Clark as Cmdr. Geoffrey Digby
Harry Locke as CPO Blades
Michael Howard as Joe
Lionel Jeffries as George
Clifford Mollison as Sails
Thorley Walters as Lt. Setley
Duncan Lamont as Master-at-Arms
Lisa Gastoni as Maria
Cyril Raymond as P.M.O.
Harold Siddons as Whiskers
D.A. Clarke-Smith as The Admiral
Kenneth Griffith as Sub-Lieutenant
John Le Mesurier as The Marshal's Aide
Carlo Giustini as Carlo Vespucci
Ferdy Mayne as Interpreter
Gordon Jackson as Harry
Martyn Garrett as The Baby
Patrick Cargill as Navigation Officer
John Forbes-Robertson as Gunnery Officer
Sam Kydd as Chief Steward
 

Hapless sailor ‘Knocker White’ (John Mills) is literally left holding the baby after a family mix-up with a baker's daughter (Lisa Gastoni) on the quayside at Naples. Knocker is faced with little alternative but to smuggle the Italian child on board his Warship HMS Gillingham. During a Nato exercise at sea, Knocker and his partner in deception, ‘Puncher’ (Richard Attenborough), conspire to keep their Captain (Michael Hordern) in the dark about their tiny stowaway below decks.