Luck of the Navy

{{short description|1938 film directed by Norman Lee}} {{for|1927 film adapted from the same play|The Luck of the Navy (film)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}} {{Use British English|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox film | name = Luck of the Navy | image = Luck of the Navy.jpg | caption = | director = Norman Lee | producer = Walter C. Mycroft | based_on = {{based on|''The Luck of the Navy''|Clifford Mills}} | writer = Clifford Grey | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Geoffrey Toone|Judy Kelly|Clifford Evans}} | music = Harry Acres | cinematography = Walter J. Harvey | editing = Walter Stokvis | studio = Associated British Picture Corporation | distributor = Associated British Film Distributors | released = {{Film date|1938|11}} | runtime = 64 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget =£30,564<ref>{{cite magazine|title=‘The highest salary ever paid to a human being’: Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England |last=Chapman|first= Llewella|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|magazine=Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10|volume=19|number=4|page=470-494 at 480}}</ref> | gross = }} '''''Luck of the Navy''''' is a 1938 British comedy thriller film directed by Norman Lee and starring Geoffrey Toone, Judy Kelly and Clifford Evans.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/40992 |title=Luck of the Navy (1938) | BFI |website=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2017-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023010148/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/40992 |archive-date=23 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Shot at Elstree Studios<ref>Wood p.98</ref> it was based on the play ''The Luck of the Navy'' by Mrs Clifford Mills and is also known by the alternative title of '''''North Sea Patrol'''''.

==Plot== With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton.

==Cast== * Geoffrey Toone as Commander Clive Stanton * Judy Kelly as Cynthia Maybridge * Clifford Evans as Lieutenant Peel * John Wood as Sub Lieutenant Eden * Albert Burdon as Noakes * Alf Goddard as Tomkins * Henry Oscar as Perrin * Kenneth Kent as Colonel Suvaroff * Marguerite Allan as Anna Suvaroff * Edmund Breon as Admiral Maybridge * Doris Hare as Mrs Maybridge * Daphne Raglan as Dora Maybridge * Olga Lindo as Mrs Rance * Diana Beaumont as Millie * Leslie Perrins as Briggs * Frank Fox as François * Joan Fred Emney as Cook * Ronald Adam as Enemy Ship's Captain

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0031731}}

Category:1938 films Category:1930s comedy thriller films Category:Films shot at Associated British Studios Category:1938 English-language films Category:Films directed by Norman Lee Category:British comedy thriller films Category:British black-and-white films Category:1938 comedy films Category:British seafaring films Category:1938 British films Category:English-language comedy thriller films