Sailor Beware (1952 film)

This article is about a Martin and Lewis film. For other films with a similar title, see Sailor Beware.
Sailor Beware
Directed byHal Walker
Screenplay byJames Allardice
Martin Rackin
Based onSailor Beware!
1933 play
by Kenyon Nicholson
Charles Robinson
Produced byHal B. Wallis
StarringJerry Lewis
Dean Martin
Marion Marshall
Corinne Calvet
Leif Erickson
CinematographyDaniel L. Fapp
Edited byWarren Low
Music byJoseph J. Lilley
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • February 9, 1952 (1952-02-09)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$4.3 million (US)[1]
854,588 admissions (France)[2]

Sailor Beware is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. It is an adaption of a 1933 Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Robinson play of the same name. It was released on February 9, 1952 by Paramount Pictures. The working title was At Sea with the Navy.[3]

It was the fifth film collaboration of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, who would make 16 movies together before their partnership's end.

  1. ^ 'Top Box-Office Hits of 1952', Variety, January 7, 1953
  2. ^ Jerry Lewis films French box office information at Box Office Story
  3. ^ Inc, Nielsen Business Media (4 August 1951). "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 16 – via Internet Archive. at sea with the navy lewis. {{cite magazine}}: |last= has generic name (help); Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)