peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2020 06 27 BarnacleBill

Barnacle Bill (1957)

Sat, Jun 27, 2020./noise/movies | Link

Another of the Ealing comedies (a minor one) and more Alec Guinness completism. It's a paint-by-the-numbers farce in black-and-white that passes the time amiably but unimaginatively. The permanently seasick star wins us over by playing the little man sticking the big sea laws to the self-dealing local council. There are young people doing their thing to what was progressive music at the time. It's a bit disappointing when set against the earlier Kind Hearts and Coronets.