Dec 29th  
Up the Creek*     
(GB 1957)            
Exclusive(Hammer)/Byron Film. bw. Hammerscope

An eccentric naval rocket scientist is given unlikely command of a wragbag Corvette doing a steady business.
Engaging lesser-remembered entry that year from the fledgling Exclusive studio (who were to hit the jackpot with The Curse of Frankenstein), an amusing Navy reworking of Oh Mr Porter! with one or two familiar faces, not all of whom are used to their best advantage.

w: Val Guest, Len Heath, John Warren
p: Henry Halsted
d: Val Guest
s: David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde White, Lionel Jeffries, Lionel Murton, Liliane Sottane
ph: Arthur Grant
m: Tony Fones, Tony Lowry

Preceded by:
The Nickel-Hopper
(US 1926. bw. silent; A single mother looks after a lazy father and dances with a succession of variable possible matches.; w: H.M. Walker (and others); d: F. Richard Jones, Hal Yates; s: Mabel Normand, Michael Visaroff, Oliver Hardy, Boris Karloff, James Finlayson; for Pathe/Hal Roach.)

THE NICKEL-HOPPER (1926). A minor and rather extended Hal Roach comedy 3-reeler starring Mabel Normand, interesting as a trivia item for featuring a future Frankenstein's monster and one half of an immortal comedy duo (with an uncredited Stan Laurel also contributing to the script)