What do Maurice Elvey and Peter Watkins have in common?
Peter Watkins Peter Watkins (born 29 October 1935) is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton, Surrey, lived in Sweden, Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama. His films present pacifist and radical ideas in a nontraditional style. He mainly concentrates his works and ideas around the mass media and our relation/participation to a movie or television documentary.
You Know What Sailors Are (1928 film) You Know What Sailors Are is a 1928 British silent comedy drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Alf Goddard, Cyril McLaglen and Chili Bouchier. The crews of British and Spanish ships enter into a bitter rivalry. It was made at Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush. The film is based on the novel "A Light for his Pipe" by E.W. Townsend.