Trust the Navy

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Trust the Navy
Directed by Lupino Lane
Written by
Produced byIan Sutherland
Starring
Music by Billy Mayerl
Production
company
St. George's Pictures
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
December 1935
Running time
71 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Trust the Navy is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring Lane, Nancy Burne and Wallace Lupino. [1] It was made at Cricklewood Studios. [2] It marked the screen debut of Guy Middleton, who went on to be a leading character actor in British films of the following decades.

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  1. "Trust the Navy (1935)".
  2. Low p.4014

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