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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013131144291
Format: NTSC
Label: Anchor Bay Entertain
Languages: EnglishUnknown
Manufacturer: Anchor Bay Entertain
Publisher: Anchor Bay Entertain
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 94 minutes
Studio: Anchor Bay Entertain
Theatrical Release Date: September 28, 1953
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"The Captain's Paradise" is a very droll comedy in which Alec Guinness plays against type as a sophisticated Don Juan with 2 women in his life, each representing the 2 halves, in his words, of the perfect woman. One is Celia Johnson ,the proper little English housewife, drab, unimaginative, eager to please and sexless. The other is continental Yvonne De Carlo, sexy, flamboyant and exciting. The film ran into problems with the censors when it was released in America and it is easy to see why because ... Read More
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"The Captain's Paradise" (1953) exists primarily as a showcase for Alec Guinness, whose masterful characterization dominates this uneven bigamist farce. Yvonne De Carlo also shines in one of her best roles as Guinness' red-hot Moroccan spouse, with Celia Johnson memorably playing the British wife in port. The dance sequence between Guinness and De Carlo is a standout. Alec Coppel's screenplay received an Oscar nomination.
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twixt 1949 ("kind hearts and coronets") and 1959 ("our man in havana"), alec guiness made a slew of great comedies. this one is more boulevard farce than the others, wherein he portrays a ferry captain with two lives -- & two wives -- in different ports. with celia johnson, he is the veddy propah englishman, while with yvonne de carlo, he is a gay blade. it works perfectly for a while, but of course, as all good things do, ...
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I think one reviewer referred to the film as sexist, and I would have to agree, which may have affected my enjoyment of the film. I think it did reflect views in the early fifties, but the overall problem was that the movie seemed quite dated (forgiveable, I suppose, after 50 years, but some movies much older don't seem dated in the same way).
The plot involves the captain of a ferry boat that goes back and forth between Gibraltar and North Africa. The captain's search for paradise appears ... Read More
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The ascending career of Alec Guiness experienced in this movie another magisterial leap He was the fortunate actor who participated in the golden ages of the British Comedy (The lady killers, Kind hearts and cornets, The lavender hill mob, The man in the white suit), consolidating an unusual artistic and promising sum of positive results and extraordinary scripts that would seem to be made thinking about him.
An admirable and clever script around the perfect path of total happiness, when a captain ... Read More
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