The Bargee

Harry H. Corbett plays a boatman operating a canal-boat on the Grand Union Canal. Hemel Pike is a Don Juan, with girlfriends all across the canal network. He and Ronnie deliver a cargo of lemon peel from Brentford to Boxmoor, meeting an inept mariner. On the way to Birmingham, Hemel plans to stop at Leg O'Mutton Lock to meet Christine (Julia Foster), the daughter of brutish, bullying lock-keeper Joe Turnbull. Joe discovers that Christine is with child, and padlocks the lock gates to prevent traffic from passing through until the father comes forward.