The Captain's Paradise (1953)

5.7/10 94 min Romance Comedy Drama

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

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