The Captain's Paradise

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The Captain's Paradise is a 1953 British comedy film starring Alec Guinness as a ship's captain who maintains two separate lives and wives in different ports.

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instanceOf British comedy film
film
basedOn original screenplay
cinematographyBy Edward Scaife NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
director Anthony Kimmins NERFINISHED
distributedBy British Lion Films NERFINISHED
distributorInUnitedStates United Artists NERFINISHED
editedBy Gordon Pilkington NERFINISHED
filmingLocation Gibraltar NERFINISHED
format black-and-white film
genre comedy film
romantic comedy film
hasCharacter Maud St. James NERFINISHED
Nita NERFINISHED
hasTheme marital infidelity
social satire
leadActor Alec Guinness NERFINISHED
leadActress Celia Johnson NERFINISHED
Yvonne De Carlo NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Captain Henry St. James NERFINISHED
musicBy Malcolm Arnold NERFINISHED
narrativeFocus double life of a ship's captain
notableFor Alec Guinness playing a morally ambiguous comic lead
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A ship's captain maintains two separate lives and wives in different ports, one representing domestic respectability and the other a more hedonistic lifestyle.
portrays bigamy
contrast between conventional and carefree lifestyles
producer George H. Brown NERFINISHED
productionCompany London Films NERFINISHED
releaseDateInUK 1953
releaseYear 1953
runtimeMinutes 94
screenwriter Nicholas Phipps NERFINISHED
Val Valentine NERFINISHED
setting Gibraltar NERFINISHED
North Africa NERFINISHED
starring Alec Guinness NERFINISHED
Celia Johnson NERFINISHED
Charles Goldner NERFINISHED
Walter Crisham NERFINISHED
Yvonne De Carlo NERFINISHED
storyBy A. P. Dearsley NERFINISHED

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Alec Coppel wroteScreenplayFor The Captain's Paradise
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