Character player Clifford Mollison and celebrated playwright and actor H.F. Maltby are among the cast of this sprightly early-thirties comedy charting the exploits of an unlikely wartime hero. Freedom of the Seas – also notable as French director Marcel Varnel’s first British film following a period in Hollywood – is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.

Mollison plays Smith, a mild-mannered clerk who becomes one of the first men to join up after the declaration of war in 1914. He joins the Navy, and – to the amazement of all and sundry – succeeds in outwitting various spies and sinking an enemy submarine...

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