

The Captain's Paradise
1953-06-09 · 94 min · ★ 5.7
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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- Directors
- Anthony Kimmins
- Production companies
- London Films Productions, British Lion Films
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Status
- Released
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Alec GuinnessCaptain Henry St. James
Yvonne De CarloNita St. James
Celia JohnsonMaud St. James
Miles MallesonLawrence St. James
Walter CrishamBob
Nicholas PhippsThe Major
Bill FraserAbsalom (taxi driver)
Ferdy MayneThe Sheikh
Sebastian CabotAli (vendor)
Peter BullKalikan firing-squad officer
Roger DelgadoKalikan Policeman
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