The Navy Lark

1959
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1h 22m

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Elvi Hale, Cecil Parker, and Ronald Shiner in The Navy Lark (1959)

Film version of a popular BBC radio show about the incompetent crew of a Royal Navy ship.Film version of a popular BBC radio show about the incompetent crew of a Royal Navy ship.Film version of a popular BBC radio show about the incompetent crew of a Royal Navy ship.

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6.0/10

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Trivia
The film was based on a then-new radio series whose first season boasted Jon Pertwee and Dennis Price among the main cast. According to Pertwee, producer Herbert Wilcox refused to hire Price for the film spin-off because Price was gay. Pertwee protested on Price's behalf, and Wilcox fired Pertwee as well.

Quotes
CPO Banyard: [entering room in agitated state] Sir, it's about Lieutenant Binns sir - something has got to be done.
Cmdr. Stanton: [Sympathetically] Well, we know chief, we know.
CPO Banyard: Yes, but do you know what he's done now Sir? He's pinched the jeep. The Milkman's livid.

Crazy credits
Navy Lark is a surely fictitious account of events and goings on in a naval establishment only loosely connected with the senior service.

Connections
Followed by HMS Paradise (1964)

Soundtracks
The Navy Lark
Composed by James Moody and Tommy Reilly
Performed by Tommy Reilly on Harmonica with James Moody on Piano

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5/10

radio spin off

Before TV spin offs there came radio spin offs such as Life With The Lyons,The Grove family and 20Questions Murder Mystery.In those films the original radio cast was used but not here.Only Leslie Phillips survives,presumably because he was established as a film actor.As to the replacements i would have preferred to see Jon Pertwee and Ronnie Barker reprise their roles.However the addition of Cecil Parker is quite inspired as he was a truly great comedy actor in his later years.The film is quite funny up to the half way point but then sags with the rather unfunny revolution.Also i think that Ronnie Shiner was clearly an unfortunate choice for the CPO.He looks very aged and not really up to it.