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The Captain's Paradise is a 1953 British comedy film starring Alec Guinness and directed by Anthony Kimmins.
Guinness plays the captain of a passenger ship that travels regularly between Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco.
The film begins at just before the end of the story, which is then told in a series of flashbacks.
In 1958, the story was made into a Broadway musical comedy, retitled Oh, Captain!.
CAST:-
Alec Guinness – Captain Henry St. James
Charles Goldner – Chief Officer Carlos Ricco
Miles Malleson – Lawrence St. James
Yvonne De Carlo – Nita
Celia Johnson – Maud
Bill Fraser – Absalom
Peter Bull – Firing-squad commander
Nicholas Phipps – The Major
Ambrosine Phillpotts – Marjorie
Ferdy Mayne – The Sheikh
Sebastian Cabot – Ali (vendor)
Arthur Gomez – Chief steward
George Benson – Mr. Salmon
Bernard Rebel – Mr Wheeler
Joyce Barbour – Mrs Reid, the housekeeper
Claudia Grey – Susan Dailey
Ann Hefferman – Daphne Bligh
Walter Crisham – Bob
Roger Delgado - Kalikan policeman
Directed by Anthony Kimmins
Produced by Anthony Kimmins
Written by Alec Coppel
Running time 93 min.
MOVIE PLOT:- The Captain's Paradise (1953)
In early 1950s North Africa, a man (Alec Guinness) is escorted through an angry, clamouring crowd by a platoon of soldiers. They enter a fort and it is clear that he is to be executed. The commander (Peter Bull) orders the men to line up in two rows and gives the order to fire. As the shots ring out, the scene changes to a ferry ship, the "Golden Fleece" in the docks as the passengers embark for the two days' journey to Gibraltar. Amongst the crew, there is much dismay, and the chief officer, Carlos Ricco (Charles Goldner) takes to his cabin with the clear intention of getting drunk. He is interrupted by an elderly gentleman, Lawrence St. James (Miles Malleson), who had come to speak his nephew, Captain Henry St. James on an unspecified, but urgent, matter. He is profoundly shocked to learn that the grief he had encountered on the ship is due to the death of the man he had travelled from England to see. He begs Ricco, to explain what has led to such an event. He learns that his nephew Henry was the prosperous owner and skipper of this small passenger ship which he captained as it ferried regularly to and fro between Gibraltar and Kalique, a port in North Africa.
In Morocco, he lives with his lover, Nita (Yvonne de Carlo) – a young, hot-blooded, exotic lady. She is 13 years younger than he and refers to him as "her Jimmy". He takes her out every night to expensive, fashionable restaurants and night clubs, where they lead a loud and wild lifestyle. In Gibraltar, he shares his life with Maud (Celia Johnson) – his devoting, domesticated wife, just three years his junior – living a respectable, sober existence, and going to bed every night no later than ten o'clock with their cocoa. St James gives Nita lingerie. He gives Maud a vacuum cleaner. Both are delighted. He has found a perfect existence – his paradise.
Growing perhaps complacent, St. James makes a careless mistake. This leads to Ricco, up till then believing Nita to be the captain's wife, discovering that the true Mrs. St James is living in Gibraltar. Ricco is glad to assist St. James in maintaining the deception and is soon called into action when Maud flies to Kalique and by chance meets Nita. St. James arranges to have Maud arrested before she and Nita realise that they are married to the same man. He convinces Maud that Morocco is a dangerous place and that she should never return there.
The years pass by. Maud has twins. She is thrilled with her two boys, but when they are sent to school in England, Maud is no longer enamoured with her existence. She wants to dance and drink gin. On the other hand, Nita wants to stay home and cook for her man. Henry is dismayed and makes every effort to keep everything just the way it was. His attempts to maintain the status quo result in both women taking lovers. When St James discovers Nita's infidelity, he leaves the flat as she continues the argument with her lover, Absalom. Nita shoots and kills her lover. To spare Nita, Captain St. James claims he was the killer.
The execution is then shown, but the firing squad swing their rifles to the left and shoot their commanding officer. St. James hands them money and walks away.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 7705 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1
Frames Per Second: 29.970
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: English
RunTime 94 mins
Subtitles: None
Source DVD5
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]
Screens:
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Language(s): English
Format: DVD5
Size: 4.08 GB
Hoster: Multi Mirror
Parts: 17
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