Bye Bye Baby

Rosenthal’s only film as writer/director, BYE BYE BABY owes much to Rosenthal’s national service in the Royal Navy in the mid-1950s where he trained as an eavesdropper on Russian naval radio transmissions, and in which he was conscious of being the object of not one but three different prejudices: as a Northerner, as a product of a working-class background, and as “about the only Jew in the navy”. As such, the film explores the often hilarious world of a young Jewish lad conscript and how he survives the Russians, the Royal Navy and the relationship with his girl back home.