The Captain's Paradise (1953)

Directed by

Anthony Kimmins

Genre

comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

U

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A ship captain has a wife in Gibraltar and a lover in Morocco. He tries to balance both relationships as his ship travels between the two ports.

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What happens

The Captain's Paradise is a 1953 British comedy film produced and directed by Anthony Kimmins, and starring Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo and Celia Johnson. Guinness plays the captain of a passenger ship that travels regularly between Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco. De Carlo plays his Moroccan lover and Johnson plays his British wife. The film begins at just before the end of the story, which is then told in a series of flashbacks. In 1958, the story was made into a Broadway musical comedy, retitled Oh, Captain!. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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