Girls at Sea (1958 film)

Girls At Sea is a 1958 British comedy film directed by Gilbert Gunn and starring Guy Rolfe, Ronald Shiner, Alan White, Michael Hordern and Anne Kimbell.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The Middle Watch, a stock repertory farce by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall, had a few amusing moments, but loses most of them in transit to the screen.

The rest of the film laboriously hammers home comic clichés, shot, as if to emphasise its stage origins, against a studio background of stationary clouds.

"[2] The Radio Times wrote: "The 1940s film version of the stage farce The Middle Watch, which starred Jack Buchanan, was pretty bad, but beside this tepid remake it looks like a comedy classic.

The cast does its level best to pep up the tired material ... Ronald Shiner is cheeky and Michael Hordern is absent-mindedly authoritarian, but Guy Rolfe is as wooden as a figurehead, while all the girls get to do is rush around in a state of undress.