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Barnacle Bill (U.S. title: All at Sea) is a 1957 Ealing Studios comedy film directed by Charles Frend and starring Alec Guinness. [3] It was written by T. E. B. Clarke . Guinness plays an unsuccessful Royal Navy officer and six of his maritime ancestors.
A square-rigger, it eventually went around the world. Over the following years, he gained extensive experience in Asiatic waters, serving as a ship's officer on army transports such as Burnside, Sedgwick, and Kilpatrick, voyaging to and from the Philippines and the West Indies. In Bahia he picked up a talking parrot he named "Barnacle Bill".
Barnacle Bill may refer to: Barnacle Bill (theme tune), the theme tune of the BBC children's TV programme Blue Peter; William Bernard (sailor), subject of the song; Barnacle Bill (Martian rock), a 40-cm rock on Mars in Ares Vallis; Barnacle Bill, a Fleischer Studios animated short film; Barnacle Bill, a film starring Archie Pitt and Joan Gardner
Hue and Cry (1947) is generally considered to be the earliest of the cycle, and Barnacle Bill (1957) the last, [3] although some sources list Davy (1958) as the final Ealing comedy. [4] Many of the Ealing comedies are ranked among the greatest British films, and they also received international acclaim. [5] [6] [7] [8]
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William Bernard (fl. 1849+) was a 19th-century sailor, miner and resident of San Francisco, better known as the notorious "Barnacle Bill" of American yore whose fictional exploits are chronicled in the ribald drinking song "Barnacle Bill the Sailor" — itself adapted from "Bollocky Bill the Sailor", a traditional folk song originally titled "Abraham Brown".
Walter Newton Henry Harding (1883-1973) collected over 15,000 ballads from mostly 19th-century, with many 18th-century items. [6] Among them is an undated transcript of Abraham Brown The Sailor, noted as being to the tune of My Heart and Lute. [7]
It has nothing to do with William Bernard, the sailor and California Gold Rush character known as "Barnacle Bill". Ironically, Fleischer Studios also produced a Popeye cartoon, Beware of Barnacle Bill in 1935, using the same song as aforementioned, almost 5 years after Betty Boop cartoon Barnacle Bill was released, with Bluto as Barnacle Bill ...