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Why Sailors Leave Home
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Wikipedia article
'Why Sailors Leave Home' is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Leslie Fuller, Peter Bernard and Eve Gray.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090118050002/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/58030 BFI.org] The screenplay concerns a British sailor on shore leave in the Middle East who ends up being mistaken for a Sheikh.Sutton p.106
Cast
* Leslie Fuller - Bill Biggles
* Peter Bernard - George
* Eve Gray - Slave Girl
* Gladys Cruickshank - Slave Girl
* Dmitri Vetter - Multhasa
* Frank Melroyd - Captain
* Syd Courtenay - Sheik Sidi Ben
* Lola Harvey - Maya
* Jean Ross - Slave Girl
* Marika Rkk - Slave Girl
References
Bibliography
* Sutton, David R. 'A chorus of raspberries: British film comedy 1929-1939'. University of Exeter Press, 2000.
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