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...Captain's Paradise. Alec Guinness as a ferryboat captain who manages to have a wife (Celia Johnson and Yvonne de Carlo) in each port (TIME...
...Captain's Paradise. Alec Guinness in a comedy about a ferryboat captain who manages to have a wife (Celia Johnson and Yvonne de Carlo) in each port (TIME...
...Captain's Paradise. Alec Guinness in a comedy about a ferryboat captain who manages to have a wife (Celia Johnson and Yvonne de Carlo) in each port (TIME...
...Gibraltar side, the captain goes soberly afoot from his ship to a conventional middle-class cottage. There he is cozily greeted by wife No. i, a plain but devoted homebody (Celia Johnson) who puts out his pipe and porter, serves up his favorite dumplings, and answers dutifully to his call for "beddy-byes" at 10 p.m. Otherwise, as the captain explains, he would be "no use on the bridge...
...first wife, Celia (Brief Encounter) Johnson is comfy mediocrity to the life; she is an impeccable actress who finds the center of human dignity in every role she plays, and from it moves out into comedy or tragedy with equal ease and grace. As wife No. 2, Yvonne de Carlo does the job of her life. For the first time a director (Anthony Kimmins) has understood that her exuberant wiggles, suggestive ogles and painted sneer of sexual overconfidence need only the least exaggeration to change a glamour girl into a raucously earthy figure...