Why Sailors Leave Home

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Why Sailors Leave Home is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Leslie Fuller, Peter Bernard and Eve Gray.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090118050002/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/58030 BFI.org] The screenplay concerns a British sailor on shore leave in the Middle East who ends up being mistaken for a Sheikh.Sutton p.106