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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Alec Coppel (story)
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Release Date:
28 September 1953 (USA) more
Tagline:
He makes two-timing an art...and gets away with it more
Plot:
The bigamist captain of a ferry boat between the restricted British colony in Gibralter and Spanish Morocco has a woman of differing appeal and temperament in each port. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Alec Guinness Does the Bolero! more (20 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Alec Guinness | ... | Capt. 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) |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Robert Adair | ... | Customs official #3 |
| Joss Ambler | ... | Prof. Ebbart |
| Paul Armstrong | ... | Deck officer |
| Michael Balfour | ... | Customs official #2 |
| Joyce Barbour | ... | Mrs. Reid (housekeeper) |
| George Benson | ... | Mr. Salmon |
| Peter Bull | ... | Kalikan firing-squad officer |
| Roger Delgado | ... | Kalikan policeman |
| Jacinta Dicks | ... | Flower seller |
| Victor Fairley | ... | Customs official #1 |
| Catherina Ferraz | ... | Shopkeeper |
| Arthur Gomez | ... | Chief steward |
| Claudia Grey | ... | Susan Dailey |
| Armand Guinle | ... | Chief engineer |
| Ann Hefferman | ... | Daphne Bligh |
| Raymond Hoole | ... | Storekeeper |
| Tutte Lemkow | ... | Principal dancer |
| Henry B. Longhurst | ... | Prof. Killick |
| Andreas Malandrinos | ... | Maitre d'Hotel (as Andre Malandrinos) |
| Alejandro Martínez | ... | Guitarist |
| Ambrosine Phillpotts | ... | Majorie (with the major) |
| Bernard Rebel | ... | Mr. Wheeler |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Paradise
The Captain's Progress
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Runtime:
94 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:Btl | UK:A (original rating) | UK:U (video rating) (1990)
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Fun Stuff
Trivia:
Professional dancer Yvonne De Carlo persuaded director Anthony Kimmins to talk Alec Guinness into doing the mambo with her in a night club sequence. Guinness, not usually thought of as a physical actor, consented to a week's worth of dance lessons from De Carlo and the sequence is one of the film's highlights. more
Quotes:
Maud St. James:
[delighted with her new vacuum cleaner] When you go off on your old ship tomorrow, I'm going to plug this in and give this house the biggest spring cleaning it's ever had.
Capt. Henry St. James:
That's the girl! Man toils and women spins.
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Movie Connections:
Remade as Coffee, Tea or Me? (1973) (TV) more
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One of the more modest comic efforts done during his Ealing Studios period, it features a side of Guinness that his fans have never seen. Dancing the bolero with Yvonne DeCarlo in a North African nightclub, he displays such amazing footwork that it's hard to believe that he didn't have a stunt double. He didn't. This film is a small delight for true Guinness aficianados and well worth the price of a video rental