Watch It, Sailor!

Date: 1961
Director: Wolf Rilla
Production Company: Maurice Cowan Productions, Hammer Films

Stars: Dennis Price, Marjorie Rhodes, Irene Handl, Liz Fraser, Vera Day, John Meillon, Cyril Smith, Miriam Karlin, Graham Stark
Location(s): Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire

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Storyline:

A sailor is late for his own wedding but a bigger problem arises when he receives a message from his commanding officer advising that he can’t marry.

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Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson

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  • 27 Aug 2025

Well wishers wait for the Bride and her Father to appear outside the Hornett's house. 6 Victor Road, Windsor, Berkshire, facing northeast. (SR)

They'd face parking restrictions nowadays. (SR)

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  • 28 Mar 2022

The wedding car takes Shirley Hornett to the church where she is to marry her fiance Albert. The junction of Alexandra Road and Frances Road in Windsor, with All Saints church to the right.

Luckily, the leaves haven't yet reappeared to obliterate the church in Steve Randall's comparison.

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Outside the pub where he has been drinking with his pal Carnoustie, Albert Tufnell (John Meillon) gets out of his taxi when the Cab Driver (Jerry Verno) can't start the engine. Outside The Duke of Cambridge public house on High Street in Chalvey, Buckinghamshire confirmed by Richard Canavan.

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Albert and Carnoustie Bligh (Graham Stark) urge the Cabby to hurry up as he opens the bonnet.

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While the two sailors try to get the car going, the Cab Driver remarks about the Bride's domineering Mother and her poor husband Henry.

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Carnoustie pulls a wire from the Austin 6's engine.

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Albert and his Best Man decide to run to the church. Richard Lovejoy advises that Reader & Davies were grocers at 68 High Street, Chalvey in Slough, Buckinghamshire . . . all now re-developed, or obliterated might be a better turn of phrase.

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  • 27 Aug 2025

Accompanied by her Mother and Maid of Honour, Shirley is taken back home where her Aunt is surprised to see her. Victor Road, Windsor, facing south towards the junction with Bolton Road. (SR)

A new house has appeared on the corner. (SR)

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  • 27 Aug 2025

As Shirley goes into the house, Emma Hornett (Marjorie Rhodes) helps Maid of Honour Daphne Pink (Liz Fraser) from the car as Aunt Edie (Irene Handl) recalls when she was left at the altar. 1-7 Victor Road can be seen to the right. (SR)

These Windsor streets have survived fairly unscathed. (SR)

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  • 28 Mar 2022

Carnoustie and Albert reach the church where they find a funeral taking place. Looking north-east along Frances Road in Windsor with All Saints church visible to the left.

Steve Randall found the view remarkably similar after the intervening years.

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An express speeds through the station where Albert, Shirley, Carnoustie and Daphne are sitting on the platform. Jonathan Horswell confirms the location as Elstree & Borehamwood station on on Allum Lane in Elstree, Hertfordshire. The station's platforms also appear in Let the People Sing', 'You Made Me Love You', 'Trunk Crime' and 'Girls Will Be Boys'.

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After Lieutenant Commander Hardcastle advises Albert that he's free to marry after an earlier misunderstanding, the four leave the station as another train passes through. Slough railway station in Slough, Buckinghamshire which also appears in 'The Last Journey', 'Diamonds on Wheels', 'Take a Girl Like You' and 'The Wildcats of St Trinian's'.