| Not Wanted on Voyage | |
| Director: | Maclean Rogers |
| Producer: | Henry Halstead Jack Marks George Minter |
| Based On: | the play Wanted on Voyage by Evadne Price and Ken Attiwill |
| Starring: | Ronald Shiner Brian Rix Griffith Jones Catherine Boyle |
| Music: | Tony Lowry Tony Fones |
| Cinematography: | Arthur Grant |
| Editing: | Helen Wiggins |
| Studio: | Byron Films (In association with) Ronald Shiner Productions |
| Distributor: | Renown Pictures (UK) |
| Runtime: | 87 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
Not Wanted on Voyage is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Ronald Shiner, Brian Rix and Catherine Boyle. It is based on the play Wanted on Voyage by Ken Attiwill and his wife Evadne Price, and was made at British National Studios.[1]
Two cabin stewards working on a luxury vessel on a Mediterranean cruise to Tangier attempt to earn extra money from the passengers using every possible means. However, when one of the wealthy dowagers has her valuable diamond necklace stolen, they do everything they can to ensure it is restored to her.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "An alarming proportion of the gags and farcical situations misfire, so that the film is mostly rather tepid Whitehall farce. Therese Burton's lisping newly-wed has a quaintness and mild charm that singles it out from the rest."[2]
TV Guide wrote, "Too much corn stops this comedy from popping."[3]
Allmovie wrote, "Even those filmgoers who'd seen and heard the wheezy gags in Not Wanted on Voyage in earlier films were amused by the breezy ridiculousness of the project."[4]
British film critic Leslie Halliwell said: "Feeble fun from an old play."[5]