Film
The Captain's Paradise
1953 · 1h 34m · Romance · Comedy · Drama
He makes two-timing an art...and gets away with it
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Overview
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.
Cast
Alec Guinness
Captain Henry St. James
Yvonne De Carlo
Nita St. James
Celia Johnson
Maud St. James
Charles Goldner
Chief Officer Ricco
Miles Malleson
Lawrence St. James
Walter Crisham
Bob
Nicholas Phipps
The Major
Bill Fraser
Absalom (taxi driver)
Ferdy Mayne
The Sheikh
Sebastian Cabot
Ali (vendor)
Peter Bull
Kalikan firing-squad officer
Roger Delgado
Kalikan Policeman
Ambrosine Phillpotts
Marjorie
Henry B. Longhurst
Professor Killick
Bernard Rebel
Mr. Wheeler
Crew
- Anthony KimminsDirector
- Alec CoppelStory · Screenplay
- Nicholas PhippsScreenplay
- Edward ScaifeDirector of Photography
- Malcolm ArnoldOriginal Music Composer
- Gerald Turney-SmithEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- June 9, 1953
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rated
- U
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy, Drama
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