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The Captain's Paradise: Directed by Anthony Kimmins. With Alec Guinness, Peter Bull, Charles Goldner, Miles Malleson. The captain of a ferry boat between the restricted British colony in Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco has a woman of differing appeal and temperament in each port.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Anthony Kimmins
- 1953-09-28
If you only think of Alec Guinness as a stiff upper lip Englishman, you've got to rent the adorable The Captain's Paradise. He starts the movie as you think of him, as a respectable, strict, no-nonsense sea captain, but as soon as the ship docks, he comes home to Yvonne de Carlo and lets his hair down.
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 .
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.
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. Alec Coppel. Screenplay, Story. Anthony Kimmins. Director.
Running time: 93 MIN. With: Alec Guinness Yvonne De Carlo Celia Johnson Charles Goldner Miles Malleson Tutte Lemkow. The yarn is done in an almost continuous flashback. In the opening scene Alec...
The Captain's Paradise featuring Alec Guinness and Yvonne De Carlo is not currently available to stream, rent, or buy but you can add it to your want to see list for updates. It's a drama and romance movie with a better than average IMDb audience rating of 6.8 (1,817 votes).
