Captain Bill (1935)
Directed by Ralph Ceder
Genres - Comedy |
Sub-Genres - Crime Comedy |
Run Time - 81 min. |
Countries - United Kingdom |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Onetime Hollywood silent film producer Joe Rock packed himself off to his native England in the 1930s to make British programmers. Captain Bill is a vehicle for the all-but-forgotten music hall comic Leslie Fuller, who teamed with Rock to put up the money for this minor-league production. The corpulent Fuller plays a bargee (dock worker) who develops a fondness for schoolteacher Kay Strozzi. He helps teacher foil a gang of scuzzy criminals. Directed by Ralph Cedar, best known for his fast-paced second unit work on such American comedies as W.C. Fields' The Bank Dick (40), Captain Bill was filmed in 1935, but not released overseas until six years later.
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dockworker, British, criminal, crush, schoolmistress