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The Captain's Paradise(Movie, 1953)

1h 34min | Genres: Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama
The Captain's ParadiseRating: 2.8/5 (with 88 votes)
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!. ()
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Awards & Nominations for The Captain's Paradise

Academy Award for Best Story

About The Captain's Paradise

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.

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Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)
Shot in: Gibraltar
Plays in: Morocco
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 8 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 09/28/1953
Director: Anthony Kimmins
Producer: Anthony Kimmins
Screenwriter: Alec Coppel
Director of Photography: Edward Scaife
Composer: Malcolm Arnold
Production Designer: Paul Sheriff
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:130672, Added: 03/26/2018, Last updated: 04/14/2024