Alec Guinness
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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.
Alec Guinness stars as a ferry boat captain who falls for different women in each port. Watch the trailer, see photos, read reviews and trivia, and learn about the film's production and awards.
- (1.8K)
- Comedy, Romance
- Anthony Kimmins
- 1953-09-28
The Captain's Paradise. Captain Henry St. James (Alec Guinness) heads a ferryboat that regularly moves between Gibraltar and North Africa, and he has a different life in each location. In ...
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- Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, Celia Johnson
- Anthony Kimmins
- Comedy, Drama
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- Anthony Kimmins
- 94 min
- 2
Away on summer holidays in 1953, I caught up with the movie at a cinema in Vienna that was showing English language movies for the benefit of the English military personnel, part of the post World War II occupation force in the Austrian capital. I was allowed to sneak in.
Henry St. James, Captain of a large ferry that shuttles between the British colony in Gibraltar and the Spanish-ruled peninsula of Ceuta in northern Morocco, is a man who covertly maintains a wife at one port, and a mistress at another.
Released September 28th, 1953, 'The Captain's Paradise' stars Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, Celia Johnson, Charles Goldner The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 34 min, and received a user...
