| The Captain's Paradise | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Anthony Kimmins |
| Written by | Alec Coppel Nicholas Phipps |
| Based on | story by Alec Coppel |
| Produced by | Anthony Kimmins |
| Starring | Alec Guinness Celia Johnson Yvonne De Carlo |
| Cinematography | Edward Scaife |
| Edited by | Gerald Turney-Smith |
| Music by | Malcolm Arnold |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | British Lion Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Languages | English Spanish |
| Box office | £146,548 (UK)[1] $1,050,000 (est.) (US/Canada)[2][3] |
The Captain's Paradise is a 1953 British comedy film produced and directed by Anthony Kimmins, and starring Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo and Celia Johnson. Guinness plays the captain of a passenger ship that travels regularly between Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco. De Carlo plays his Moroccan wife and Johnson plays his British wife. 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!.
- ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p499
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
moneywas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "1954 Box Office Champs". Variety Weekly. 5 January 1955. p. 59. - figures are rentals in the US and Canada