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Henry Cornelius directs this classic British comedy starring Kenneth More as planning engineer David Webb, who, after approaching his employer about the company's potential conversion to automation, is sent to New York on the HMS Queen Elizabeth to negotiate a loan with a wealthy industrialist.

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play.  British cinema legend Kenneth More heads an outstanding comedy cast in this brilliantly engaging adaption of a story by Oscar-nominated screenwriter and novelist Paul Gallico. Filmed extensively on the Queen Elizabeth then the largest liner in the world Next to No Time is presented here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. David Webb, a brilliant backroom boffin who is cripplingly shy and nervous in unfamiliar situations, has an ingenious scheme for converting his employer's factory to automation. The project, however, requires more capital than the firm can provide, and to his horror Webb finds himself thrust aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth and heading inexorably to America, where he is expected to track down a famous industrialist and persuade him to finance the scheme...