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...Todday situation becomes tense when a boat is wrecked on the island with a cargo of several hundred cases of guess what? Unfortunately, the wreek occurs on the Sabbath; the thirsty Scots must wait until midnight to recover the liquour. Meanwhile, Captain Waggett of the Home Guard decides it is his duty to protect the cargo from being stolen. Through numerous wiles the islanders evade the Captain's grasp...
Alexander Mackendrick's direction is responsible for the success of the farce. He keeps all the characters moving with complete sincerity throughout the outlandish situation. Basil Radford's portrayal of the consistently thick-headed Waggett is also very good. The rest of the cast succeed in creating a background of pleasant Scottish folk...
George Andrews, third secretary of the U. S. Embassy in Havana, went fishing with a Captain Leslie Waggett last week and saw something pink fluttering over the water about three miles off the Jaimanitas Yacht Club. It was a light summer dress tied to an oar and the oar was held by Cinemactor Alexander Kirkland clinging to the keel of an overturned sailboat. With him, without her dress and painfully sunburned, was Actress Ann Harding Bannister with her secretary Marie Lombard. Hysterically they told what had happened and how the boat's skipper, one Majin Alvarez Piedra, had started...
Score, Harvard 6, Cornell 0. Goals, by Larocque 2, Guild 2, Owen, Walker. Referee, Waggett...
...Father Waggett is an eminent biologist, as well as a prominent leader in the English Church. At the English universities his conferences have proved of great value to those interested in the relations of science to religion...