Alf's Button Afloat

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.^[2] The film parodies the 1920 novel Alf's Button by W.A. Darlington and its subsequent film adaptations.^[3][4]

Alf's Button Afloat
Original British trade ad
Directed by	Marcel Varnel
Written by	Marriott Edgar Val Guest Ralph Smart
Based on	W.A. Darlington's "famous farce" Alf's Button[1]
Produced by	Edward Black
Starring	Bud Flanagan Chesney Allen Jimmy Nervo Alastair Sim
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 (1938-07) (UK)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Cast

• 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