Up to His Neck
Up to His Neck | |
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Directed by | John Paddy Carstairs |
Written by |
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Based on | a story by Peter Rogers |
Produced by | Hugh Stewart |
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Cinematography | Ernest Steward |
Edited by | Alfred Roome |
Music by | Benjamin Frankel |
Production company | Group Film Productions Limited |
Distributed by | General Film Distributors (UK) |
Release date | 1 August 1954 (UK) |
Running time | 91 minutes[1] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Up to His Neck is a 1954 British comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Ronald Shiner as Jack Carter, Hattie Jacques as Rakiki and Anthony Newley as Tommy.[2][3]
Plot[]
Sailor Jack Carter has been marooned for ten years on a South Seas island, and treated as a King by natives. He is eventually rescued by the Royal Navy, who then use him to train up commandos to recover a stolen submarine, and to foil an oriental criminal plot.
Cast[]
- Ronald Shiner as Jack Carter
- Brian Rix as Wiggy
- Laya Raki as Lao Win Tan
- Harry Fowler as Smudge
- Colin Gordon as Lieutenant Commander Sterning
- Michael Brennan as Chief Petty Officer Brazier
- Bryan Forbes as Subby
- Alec Mango as Bandit General
- Anthony Newley as Tommy
- Gerald Campion as Skinny
- Roland Curram as Jock
- Norman Mitchell as Fungus
- Hattie Jacques as Rakiki
- John Warwick as Lieutenant Truman
- Martin Boddey as Chang
- Philip Stainton as Mr Woo
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Categories:
- English-language films
- 1954 films
- 1954 comedy films
- British films
- British comedy films
- Military humor in film
- Films directed by John Paddy Carstairs
- Films with screenplays by John Paddy Carstairs
- Films scored by Benjamin Frankel
- Films with screenplays by Ted Willis, Baron Willis
- Films with screenplays by Patrick Kirwan
- Films set in the Pacific Ocean
- British black-and-white films
- 1950s British comedy film stubs