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Comedy based on James Barrie's classic play in which Kenneth More's English butler, shipwrecked with his employers, resourcefully leads them in their attempts to survive. Read more

Starring	Kenneth More, Sally Ann Howes, Martita Hunt, Cecil Parker
Director	Lewis Gilbert
Genres	Comedy

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- Few laughs are to be had from this blunt, sentimental version of a famous play, but the photography and decor are excellent.
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:44
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  Comedy of manners when a butler shows more aptitude at survival skills on an island after a ship-wreck than the upper-class people he worked for and ends up ... read more »
  
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  Comedy of manners when a butler shows more aptitude at survival skills on an island after a ship-wreck than the upper-class people he worked for and ends up ... read more »
  
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  What a film, what a cast, this is a great entertaining film, one to watch on a Saturday night. Its great…
  
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- Few laughs are to be had from this blunt, sentimental version of a famous play, but the photography and decor are excellent.
- 35357
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:44
- JM Barrie's comic war-horse trotted out again for More's resourceful butler to teach his shipwrecked betters the ropes... read more on Time Out
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