Windbag the Sailor

1936 PG-13 1h 27m

7.5 / 10 11

RATING

7.5/10

YOUR RATING

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.

Director William Beaudine

Writers

Robert Stevenson Leslie Arliss

Stars

Will Hay Moore Marriott Graham Moffatt

Bit Role (uncredited)

Captain of the 'Rob Roy'

11 User reviews

0 Lists

Friends Activity

No friends have watched this yet

Bit Role (uncredited)

Captain of the 'Rob Roy'

User Reviews 1

John Chard 6 Sep 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 ...