The Captain's Paradise (1953 Anthony Kimmins)

Then on to Gibralter and North Africa, between which Alec Guinness skippers ship from Celia Johnson to Yvonne De Carlo, achieving the 'paradise' lifestyle of the title. Charles Goldner is the officer relating the story to uncle Miles Malleson, with Bill Fraser, Ferdy Mayne (as sheik!) and Peter Bull.

Location settings and racy behaviour of De Carlo must have been pleasing to poor, post-war ration-stricken Britain; content is a bit more meaty than simple 'girl in every port' comedy and reminds me of the Woody Allen short story about the man who combined the brains of his intelligent girlfriend and the body of the sexy one - then fell for the girl leftover from both!

The irony of course is if he'd let them both change he would have been back in paradise. Good fun.

Ph. Ted Scaife. Music: Malcolm Arnold. A London film.

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