The Captain's Paradise (1953)
1h 34m
Running Time
September 28, 1953Release Date
The Captain's Paradise (1953)
1h 34m
Running Time
September 28, 1953Release Date
Plot.
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Yvonne De Carlo
Nita St. James
Alec Guinness
Captain Henry St. James
Celia Johnson
Maud St. James
Peter Bull
Kalikan Officer
Charles Goldner
Ricco
Miles Malleson
Lawrence St. James
Walter Crisham
Bob
Ann Heffernan
Daphne Bligh
Bill Fraser
Absalom (taxi driver)
Arthur Gomez
Chief Steward
Ferdy Mayne
The Sheikh
Sebastian Cabot
Ali (vendor)
George Benson
Mr. Salmon
Joss Ambler
Professor Ebbart
Anthony Kimmins
Director
Roger Delgado
Kalikan Policeman
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 28, 1953
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 34m
Filming LocationsGibraltar
Genres
Wiki.
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 wife 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!.