The Captain's Paradise

Jun 9, 1953

1h 34m

★ 5.4

He makes two-timing an art...and gets away with it

Overview

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.

Genres

Romance

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

London Films Productions

British Lion Films

The Captain's Paradise Trailers

Cast

Captain Henry St. James

Alec Guinness

Nita St. James

Yvonne De Carlo

Maud St. James

Celia Johnson

Chief Officer Ricco

Charles Goldner

Lawrence St. James

Miles Malleson

Bob

Walter Crisham

The Major

Nicholas Phipps

Absalom (taxi driver)

Bill Fraser

The Sheikh

Ferdy Mayne

Ali (vendor)

Sebastian Cabot

Kalikan firing-squad officer

Peter Bull

Kalikan Policeman

Roger Delgado

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