Why Sailors Leave Home

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Why Sailors Leave Home is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Leslie Fuller, Peter Bernard and Eve Gray. [1] The screenplay concerns a British sailor on shore leave in the Middle East who ends up being mistaken for a Sheikh. [2]

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  1. BFI.org
  2. Sutton p.106

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