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Saturday Cinema: Don't Give Up the Ship

on BBC Two England

starring
Jerry Lewis with Dina Merrill
Mickey Shaughnessy
How is it possible to misplace a complete battleship?! That's the question Lt Paul Steckler VII has to answer when he is hauled up before an official committee after World War II. It takes an attractive female psychiatrist to unearth the unlikely answers in this typically crazy comedy.
Screenplay by HERBERT BAKER.
EDMUND BELOIN and HENRY GARSOK Produced by HAL WALLIS
Directed by NORMAN TAUROG

Contributors

Unknown:
Jerry Lewis
Unknown:
Dina Merrill
Unknown:
Mickey Shaughnessy
Unknown:
Lt Paul Steckler Vii
Unknown:
Herbert Baker.
Unknown:
Henry Garsok
Produced By:
Hal Wallis
Directed By:
Norman Taurog
John Paul Steckler VII:
Jerry Lewis
Ensign Rita Benson:
Dina Merrill
Prudence:
Diana Spencer
Stan Wychinski:
Mickey Shaughnessy
Admiral Philo Tecumseh Bludde:
Robert Middleton

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