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Alf's Button Afloat (1938) review. Director: Marcel Varnel. Starring: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox, Charlie Naughton, Jimmy Gold, Alastair Sim, Wally Patch, Peter Gawthorne, Agnes Lauchlan, Glennis Lorimer, James Carney, Wilson Coleman, J.H. Roberts, Bruce Winston, Richard Cooper
- Marcel Varnel
- 7 (from 1 vote)
- Comedy, Fantasy
- 1938
Alf's Button Afloat: Directed by Marcel Varnel. With Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox. Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his uniform is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp. When he cleans it a genie appears.
- (141)
- Comedy
- Marcel Varnel
- 1938-07
The story swings on one of them polishing-up a brass button that has been recycled from Aladdin's lamp, calling up the long-dormant genie, offering his services in the usual slavish manner.
The saving grace of this movie is the incomparable Alistair Sim as the Genie of the lamp (or the button) Review by Richard Cross ★★½ Dated British comedy featuring the Crazy Gang, in which one of six naval recruits finds that polishing a button on his tunic summons genie Alistair Sim.
- Marcel Varnel
- Gainsborough Pictures
Jun 27, 2009 · Alf’s Button Afloat. We approach this film with not a little trepidation. After all the hubris we’ve spent the last four-odd years heaping on what, to the untrained eye, is merely a largely-forgotten wartime comedy filler, would we, upon seeing it properly for the first time in over fifteen years, be able to justify the pedestal upon which ...
Alf's Button Afloat is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Alastair Sim and Peter Gawthorne. In the film, the Crazy Gang go to sea, where one of them discovers a button on his uniform is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp.
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Dec 20, 2017 · The movie "Alf's Button Afloat" is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Alastair Sim a...
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