ALF'S BUTTON AFLOAT (1938) Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen & Jimmy Nervo | Comedy | B&W

Alf's Button Afloat is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Alastair Sim and Peter Gawthorne. In the film, the Crazy Gang go to sea, where one of them discovers a button on his uniform is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp. The film parodies the 1920 novel Alf's Button by W.A. Darlington and its subsequent film adaptations.

SYNOPSIS
Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his uniform is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp. When he cleans it a genie appears.

CAST & CREW
Bud Flanagan as Alf Higgins
Chesney Allen as Ches
Jimmy Nervo as Cecil
Teddy Knox as Teddy
Charlie Naughton as Charlie
Jimmy Gold as Jimmy
Alastair Sim as Eustace
Wally Patch as Sergeant Hawkins
Peter Gawthorne as Captain Driscol
Agnes Lauchlan as Lady Driscol
Glennis Lorimer as Frankie Driscol
James Carney as Lieutenant John Hardy
Wilson Coleman as surgeon
J.H. Roberts as Aladdin
Bruce Winston as Mustapha
Richard Cooper as Lord Wimbledon

Directed by Marcel Varnel
Written by Marriott Edgar, Val Guest, Ralph Smart
Based on W.A. Darlington's "famous farce" Alf's Button
Produced by Edward Black
Cinematography Arthur Crabtree
Edited by R. E. Dearing, Alfred Roome
Music by Charles Williams
Production company Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by General Film Distributors, Gaumont British Picture Corporation (presented by)
Release date July 1938 (UK)
Running time 89 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English