The Captain's Paradise

The Captain's Paradise
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAnthony Kimmins
Written byAlec Coppel
Nicholas Phipps
Based onstory by Alec Coppel
Produced byAnthony Kimmins
StarringAlec Guinness
Celia Johnson
Yvonne De Carlo
CinematographyEdward Scaife
Edited byGerald Turney-Smith
Music byMalcolm Arnold
Production
company
Distributed byBritish Lion Films
Release date
  • 9 June 1953 (1953-06-09)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesEnglish
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!.

  1. ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p499
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference money was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "1954 Box Office Champs". Variety Weekly. 5 January 1955. p. 59. - figures are rentals in the US and Canada