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Beat the Devil
1953 · Adventure · Comedy
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12 votes
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
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John Chard
September 6, 2014
What shall we do with the drunken sailor? Captain Ben Cutlet likes to spin yarns about all of his (fake) seafaring adventures, one day his false past comes to bite him as he is bluffed into captaining the Rob Roy at sea, the Rob Roy being barely sea worthy and doomed to be wrecked by a crafty shipping agent. Windbag The Sailor is probably most notable for being the first teaming of Will Hay with Moore Marriott & Grah…
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