Captain's Paradise

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Captain's Paradise ★★★ 1953

Golden Fleece captain Guinness chugs between wives in Gibraltar and North Africa, much to the adulation of chief officer Goldner. While Gibraltar's little woman Johnson is homegrown homebody, little woman de Carlo is paint the town red type, allowing Guinness to have cake and eat it too, it seems, except that he's inconveniently positioned in front of a firing squad at movie's start. 89m/B VHS, DVD . GB Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, Celia Johnson, Miles Malleson, Nicholas Phipps, Ferdinand “Ferdy” Mayne, Sebastian Cabot; D: Anthony Kimmins; W: Alec Coppel, Nicholas Phipps; C: Edward Scaife; M: Malcolm Arnold.

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