Sea Wife (1957)
3/10
Seaweed
31 January 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Pretty awful. This potboiler has the look and feel of a first rate production but is done in by a truly dreadful script which drags out just about every cliché in the lost at sea/shipwrecked on a desert isle canon. During WWII, four Brits are left adrift in a dingy after the freighter they're on is bombed. They face one peril after another from hostile Japanese to shark attack. Richard Burton is "Biscuit" and Joan Collins is "Sea Wife." She's also a nun...sexual tension ensues. Also on board are Cy Grant as "Number 4" and bigoted (and aptly named) Basil Sydney as "Bulldog." The dull direction is by Bob McNaught (replacing Roberto Rossellini[!], who worked on another version of the script...deemed too "moral" and not "adventurous" enough for 20th Century Fox). Filmed in Jamaica, which is really the only plus.
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