The Captain's Paradise
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The Captain's Paradise is a 1953 British film comedy starring Alec Guinness and directed by Anthony Kimmins. It is set in Gibraltar, northern Morocco, and on ships in between, of which Guinness is the captain.
The essence of the plot is that Guinness' character Captain Henry St. James, a prosperous seafaring man, is a bigamist, maintaining households at either end of the route his ship takes every few days. On Gibraltar, he lives with quiet, homely Maud (Celia Johnson); he comes home to find his pipe and slippers ready for him, and his adoring wife in the kitchen preparing his dinner. He sits cosily in his armchair, reads the papers and relaxes. In Morocco on the other hand, his wife Nita (Yvonne de Carlo) is a hot-blooded, exotic lady, who shuns housework and prefers to be taken out to noisy, crowded restaurants where they lead a loud and wild lifestyle. Over time, the two begin to reverse their roles - the quiet, homely wife expresses a desire to go out and paint the town red, while the wilder one wants to stay home and cook for her man. Of course, our hero wants things to stay the way they are, and his attempts to maintain the status quo lead to comical results.
In 1958, the film was made into a Broadway musical comedy, retitled Oh, Captain!.
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