The Captain's Paradise

1h 34m
RomanceComedyDrama
5.6

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.

Cast

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
Ambrosine Phillpotts
Marjorie
Henry B. Longhurst
Professor Killick
Bernard Rebel
Mr. Wheeler

Crew

Anthony Kimmins
Director
Alec Coppel
Screenplay, Story
Nicholas Phipps
Screenplay
Gerald Turney-Smith
Editor
Edward Scaife
Director of Photography
Jack Causey
Assistant Director
Peter Newbrook
Camera Operator
Malcolm Arnold
Original Music Composer
Paul Sheriff
Art Direction

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