Alf's Button Afloat

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Alf's Button Afloat
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Original British trade ad
Directed by Marcel Varnel
Written by Marriott Edgar
Val Guest
Ralph Smart
Based on W.A. Darlington's "famous farce" Alf's Button [1]
Produced by Edward Black
Starring Bud Flanagan
Chesney Allen
Jimmy Nervo
Alastair Sim
Cinematography Arthur Crabtree
Edited by R. E. Dearing
Alfred Roome
Music by Charles Williams
Production
company
Distributed by General Film Distributors
Gaumont British Picture Corporation (presented by)
Release date
  • July 1938 (1938-07)(UK)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Alf's Button Afloat is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Alastair Sim and Peter Gawthorne. In the film, the Crazy Gang go to sea, where one of them discovers a button on his uniform is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp. [2] The film parodies the 1920 novel Alf's Button by W.A. Darlington and its subsequent film adaptations. [3] [4]

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Recpetion

Kinematograph Weekly reported the film did well at the British box office in October 1938. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN   9781317740636 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ "Alf's Button Afloat (1938)". Archived from the original on 10 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Alf's Button". 29 October 2007.
  4. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (1 December 2024). "Forgotten British Film Moguls: Ted Black". Filmink. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
  5. ↑ Billings, R.H. (12 January 1939). "Films which won the box office stakes last year". Kinematograph Weekly. p. 61.
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