222 thoughts on “Michael Caine Movies”

1. The Betrayal of Sir Michael Caine – response
   June 12, 2020 at 3:54 pm

   Confusion would indeed be justified as many people must then be doing extensive editing across the internet involving Michael Caine in Morning Departure.

   1/ Here is an advertisement for Erin Playhouse 38-40 High Street Kent England which appears on the internet. The play version of the film was being performed at the Erin when this advertisement was displayed outside the theatre.

   “Made into a film starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough, and featuring the screen debut of Michael Caine, ‘Morning Departure’ is an engaging and heartfelt play about the lives about the lives of sailors trapped in their sunken submarine awaiting rescue.”

   2/The Complete list of Michael Caine films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?V=RXOF3kY3uxU

   3/QUESTION ON INTERNET QUIZ
   What actors and actresses appeared in Morning Departure – 1950?
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   March 27, 2014 4:08AM
   The cast of Morning Departure – 1950 includes: Richard Attenborough as Stoker Snipe Michael Brennan as CPO Barlow Michael Caine as Teaboy Helen Cherry as Helen Armstong Frank Coburn

   4/OSOBNOSTI cz -Michael Caine filmography extract.
   Ranní vyplutí (1950) Morning Departure
   role: Teaboy(uncredited) .

   5/FILMFRONT SITE
   Morning Departure 1950
   Director Roy Ward Baker
   Cast:
   Victor Madden as Hillbrook
   Nigel Patrick as Manson
   John Mills as Armstrong
   Andrew Crawford as McFee
   Richard Attenborough as Snipe
   Michael Caine as Tegutt

   6/FACEBOOK
   Morning Departure is a 1950 British naval drama film about life aboard a sunken submarine, directed by Roy Ward Baker, and starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough. It is based on a stage play of the same name by Kenneth Woollard, which had also been shown as a live TV play by the BBC both in 1946 and 1948. It was the feature film debut of Michael Caine.PlotThe story is set after the end of the Second World War and concerns a British submarine, HMS Trojan, which is out on a routine exercise to test its new snorkel mast when it encounters a derelict floating magnetic mine left over from the war.

   7/MORNING DEPARTURE QUOTES [on internet]
   Morning Departure (released as Operation Disaster in the United States) is a 1950 British naval drama film about life aboard a sunken submarine, directed by Roy Ward Baker, and starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough. It is based on a stage play of the same name by Kenneth Woollard, which had also been shown as a live TV play by the BBC both in 1946 and 1948. It was the feature film debut of Michael Caine.

   8/TV TROPES site– Morning Departure

   Morning Departure (released as Operation Disaster in the United States) is a 1950 British naval drama film about life aboard a sunken submarine, directed by Roy Ward Baker, and starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough. A young Michael Caine appears in his first feature film in an uncredited role as a teaboy.

   9/IMDB TRIVIA FOR MORNING DEPARTURE
   Movie and television debut of Sir Michael Caine (Teaboy).

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2. Cogerson
   June 11, 2020 at 5:32 pm

   I love Wiki….but anybody can edit the article….I think whoever edited the movie page, has gotten confused. As for Split…the entire reason I saw Split in theaters was for Bruce’s appearance at the end. If you type Bruce Willis in Split you get lots of articles…this is number one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My8kfz_Ddqg If you type Michael Caine in Morning Departure you get this…..http://www.playhouse.org.uk/morning-departure/ A page filled with lots of errors….and a source for Wiki? I know…I live in a glass house…and I am throwing rocks….lol

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3. Cogerson
   June 11, 2020 at 5:27 pm

   Hey Bob…..I know the importance of tea overseas….but I think his “rumored” appearance in Morning Departure is not accurate…..like the rumor that Harrison Ford appears in The Great Escape during a train scene after the escape. It was not Ford and it was not Caine. His first film appearance was a A Hill In Korea. I would love to give him credit to lots of movies……but Operation Disaster is not one. Funny comment

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4. The Betrayal of Sir Michael Caine by Judas Cogerson Part 2
   June 10, 2020 at 3:45 am

   WIKIPEDIA 1950 MORNING DEPARTURE CAST LIST [“Check it out!”]
   JOHN MILLS as the captain, Lieutenant Commander Peter Armstrong
   Nigel Patrick as the first lieutenant, Lieutenant Manson
   Peter Hammond as Sub-Lieutenant Oakley
   Andrew Crawford as Sub-Lieutenant J. McFee
   Michael Brennan as Chief Petty Officer Barlow
   George Cole as Engine Room Artificer Marks
   Victor Maddern as Leading Telegraphist Hillbrook
   Roddy McMillan as Leading Seaman Andrews
   Frank Coburn as Leading Seaman Brough
   Jack Stewart as Leading Seaman Kelly
   James Hayter as Able Seaman Higgins
   Wylie Watson as Able Seaman Nobby Clark
   RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH as Stoker Snipe
   George Thorpe as Captain Fenton
   Bernard Lee as Commander Gates
   Kenneth More as Lieutenant Commander James
   Alastair Hunter as Captain Jenner
   Helen Cherry as Helen Armstrong
   Lana Morris as Rose Snipe
   Zena Marshall as Wren
   MICHAEL CAINE as Teaboy (uncredited)

   NOTE Most of the names on this cast list where familiar thespians in British films in the 50s – for example Nigel Patrick/George Cole/Victor Madden/Helen Cherry/Lana Morris and of course future English movie Great Kenneth More. Nigel Patrick made newspaper front page headlines over here when he got the better of “American tough guy” Richard Widmark in a fisticuffs encounter in 1955’s A Prize of Gold – patriotic Brits such as the Steves of those days cheering Nigel on! It led to Nigel getting a good part the following year in Hollywood big budget flick Raintree County released in 1957 starring Liz and Monty.

   I should stress that Wikipedia doesn’t give Bruce Willis any credit whatsoever for Split – again: check it out!; but then I suppose that Mr Willis [as distinct from a Sir Bruce and Lady Demi] being probably a beer-swilling American rather than a tea-drinking Brit gives the former some advantages on the Cogerson site.

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5. The Betrayal of Sir Michael Caineby Judas Cogerson
   June 10, 2020 at 3:38 am

   “As for Sir Michael. Hmmmm…. I have read all of his biographies and I do not remember him writing about appearing in Operation Disaster/Morning Departure. He did work as a file clerk for a film company around that age…so maybe they threw him on the set for a day. Good stuff as always.” [Cogerson reply to Mr Roy]

   Mr Cogerson: I don’t think you appreciate how significant Sir Michael’s role was in Morning Departure [why do Americans always have to take sensible British movie titles and make them sound blood-curdling like Operation Disaster?]

   You see tea-drinking is a British institution which was always played up in English war movies as it symbolised the concept that even in war Brits still had a lot to live for if they could enjoy their tea; just as Americans were led to believe that wars always ended well if Gable or Flynn “got the girl”. [Even Reagan in his 1980 presidential campaign felt obliged to insist that although often only a B movie actor he did “get the girl” now and again in his films.]

   Therefore Sir Michael’s character in Morning Departure was a Gunga Din type person who carried tea to his ‘betters’ instead of water; and to patriotic Brits Sir Mike’s tea boy would have been more important than Sam Jaffe was as Gunga Din – indeed I would go as far as to say that to flag-waving Brits the Caine character would have been more exciting than that in Gunga Din of him to whom you often refer on your site as Al Leach.

   Accordingly Sir Mike being a big idol of OURS I am surprised and disappointed that regardless of how you think it all came about you don’t at least put in a marker here that Morning D was his ACTUAL first screen appearance even if you don’t credit him with its gross on his own page. Following in Part 2 is a reproduction of the current cast list on Wikipedia for Morning Departure.

   NB:Good still of Lord Dickie and Sir Tea above. Caine had become so important by then that Dickie might have made Sir Michael a cup of tea as a courtesy. All the more reason to make some mention of their joint Morning D involvement

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