Sea Wife

Sea Wife
Original British trade ad
Directed byBob McNaught
Screenplay by
Based onSea-Wyf and Biscuit
1956 novel
by James Maurice Scott
Produced byAndré Hakim
StarringJoan Collins
Richard Burton
Basil Sydney
Cy Grant
CinematographyEdward Scaife
Edited byPeter Taylor
Music byKenneth V. Jones
Leonard Salzedo
Production
company
Alma Productions
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • 4 April 1957 (1957-04-04) (London)
  • October 16, 1957 (1957-10-16) (United States)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Sea Wife is a 1957 British CinemaScope drama thriller war film photographed in DeLuxe Color, based on the 1955 James Maurice Scott novel Sea-Wyf and Biscuit.[1] Taken in Jamaica, the film follows a group of survivors from a torpedoed British refugee ship.[2][3]

  1. ^ Scott, James Maurice Sea-Wyf and Biscuit , Daniel C. Krummes, Cruel Seas: World War 2 Merchant Marine-Related Nautical Fiction from the 1930s to Present, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
  2. ^ "Sea Wife (1957) - Notes - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
  3. ^ "Sea Wife". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012.