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Status
Released
Release
1961
Runtime
1h 27m
Undistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake) helps 150 Wrens under Superintendent Maxine Audley, who've hijacked a frigate, HMS 'Huntress', to prove they're the equal of their male counterparts. Hardly a feminist masterpiece, but fans will relish the nightmare court-martial in which Drake plays all the parts
34 Cast Members
Charlie Drake
Charlie
Anne Heywood
Chief Oficer Anne Stevens
Cecil Parker
C-in-C
John Turner
Lt. Michael Pattinson
Thorley Walters
Captain Jerome Robertson
Maxine Audley
Mary - Superintendent
Eleanor Summerfield
Chief Wren Mabel Rawlins
Victor Maddern
CPO Nixon
Lionel Murton
Admiral
Barbara Hicks
P.T. Instructress
Kenneth Fortescue
Paul Turner
Dilys Laye
Sue
Penny Newington
Elizabeth
Michael Ripper
Tug
Anton Rodgers
Alec
Murray Melvin
Kenneth
Angus Lennie
George
Tony Hilton
Pincher
Michael Henry
Jumper
Norman Chappell
Johnson
