You Know What Sailors Are is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Donald Sinden, Michael Hordern, Bill Kerr, Dora Bryan and Akim Tamiroff.

Ken Annakin had been idle under his contract with Rank when his old mentor Sydney Box suggested he collaborate with Peter Rogers who was working on "a crazy comedy set in an Arabian Nights’ kind of country.

"[3] Peter Rogers bought the screen rights to Edward Hyams' book and says he wrote 14 drafts before Earl St John agreed to make the film.

[5] Annakin said "the film did good average business in the UK... but for me You Know What Sailors Are stands out as the movie on which I discovered that farce is not my strongest talent!

I know how to build scenes to release the ‘big laugh’, but I prefer to rely on sly humour, and on comedy arising from the observation of the funny things people do in real life.