Three Men in a Boat (1956 film) Three Men in a Boat (1956 film) Three Men in a Boat is a 1956 British CinemaScope colour comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Laurence Harvey, Jimmy Edwards, Shirley Eaton and David Tomlinson. It is based on the 1889 novel "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome. The film received mixed reviews, but was a commercial success. The film is set in the Edwardian era, Harris, J, and George, want to get away from it all and decide to take a holiday boating up the River Thames to Oxford, taking with them their dog Montmorency. George
Three Men in a Boat leisure immersed in a Yogistani translation of it. In "Have Space Suit—Will Travel", by Robert A. Heinlein, the main character's father is an obsessive fan of the book, and spends much of his spare time repeatedly re-reading it. The book "Three Men (Not) in a Boat: and Most of the Time Without a Dog" (1983, republished 2011) by Timothy Finn is a loosely related novel about a walking trip. A re-creation in 1993 by poet Kim Taplin and companions resulted in the travelogue "Three Women in a Boat". "Gita sul Tevere" is an Italian humorous book inspired by this famous