Film Listings – Bognor Regis Observer – Thursday, 18 April 1957

PAVILION, SELSEY. TEN-MONTH-OLD Baker the Baby is the central figure in "THE BABY AND THE BATTLESHIP," a naval comedy which stars John Mills and Richard Attenborough. The action is set in Naples, where "Puncher" Roberts, a naval rating with a slow mind and speedy fists, is on leave from H.M.S. Gillingham. He is literally left holding a baby and smuggles it aboard ship after vainly looking for its parents. Complications arise when his ship suddenly leaves port on Fleet exercises, complete with a visiting Marshal of a foreign State, a guest of the Admiralty, who makes lightning visits to all parts of the ship. The hilarious situations in the film stem from the sailors' attempts to look after Baker—feeding. clothing and entertaining him, hiding him from their officers and the Marshal. and keeping him alive and well under the most trying conditions. The love of a young Mexican boy for a horse is the theme of Walt Disney's "THE LITTLEST OUTLAW." which has an all-Mexican cast. The boy, Pablito, played by Andres Valesquez, rescues a magnificent horse, Conqistador, from death and takes it away. In his wandering he falls into the bands of bandits, and later both he and the horse take shelter in a church. The climax comes when, after a series of adventures, the horse is used as prey in the bull-ring.