Sailor Beware! (1956 film)

Sailor Beware!
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Directed byGordon Parry
Written byFalkland Cary
Philip King
Based onSailor Beware! by Philip King
Falkland Cary
Produced byJack Clayton
John Woolf
StarringPeggy Mount
Shirley Eaton
Ronald Lewis
CinematographyDouglas Slocombe
Edited byStan Hawkes
Music byLambert Williamson
Production
companies
Distributed byIndependent Film Distributors
Release date
  • 4 September 1956 (1956-09-04)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office£221,779 (UK)

Sailor Beware! is a 1956 British comedy film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton and Ronald Lewis. It was written by Philip King and Falkland Cary adapted from their 1955 stage play of the same name. It was released in the United States by Distributors Corporation of America in 1957 as Panic in the Parlor.

It follows the story of a sailor betrothed to be married, but wary that home-life may echo that of his parents: a hen-pecked husband and battle-axe mother. It is Michael Caine's film debut; he has a small, uncredited role as a sailor. Paul Eddington also makes his film debut, albeit uncredited.