The Captain's Paradise
He makes two-timing an art...and gets away with it
A lighthearted romantic comedy about a charming captain juggling two women in two ports, built on wit, deception, and the precarious thrill of nearly getting caught.
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.
Essence
Ensemble
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
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