The Captain's Paradise
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Movie Reviews of The Captain's Paradise
Movie Review: Brilliant, delirious,engaging and genial comedy!
Summary: 5 Stars
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 gets in one of his two women the perfect complement of the other one. The perfect housewife in Gibraltar and the sensual, erotic and alluring fire of Yvonne de Carlo in Kalik. He is the fortunate captain with two loves in each port. His engaging personality allows him to maintain this curious and ambivalent stage; a double moral happily masked beneath his undeniable charisma. But the feared day at last arrives for him to fade his delicate equilibrium, when the things seems to miscarry and even inversing. Each one of them decides to renounce the costume 's law.
Consider this picture as one of the most imaginative, funny and delicious British comedies ever made. A kinetic script and the presence of a towering cast and brilliant direction will captive you from start to finish.
Movie Review: Acting Genius
Summary: 5 Stars
In "The Captain's Paradise" Alec Guinness plays two roles simultaneously, and everything in between. He is the captain of the ferry that crosses the Strait from Gibraltar (VERY English) to Morocco (VERY un-English) after WWII, and he has an appropriate wife on each side: in Gibraltar the practical and homeloving cook and seamstress (Celia Johnson), and in Africa the luscious lover (Yvonne DeCarlo). He himself changes character to suit as he goes back and forth, and gradually fades from one into the other with each trip. He has solved the problem of masculine living by splitting one woman into two and having one of each.
The "Captain's Paradise", of course, is a fool's paradise.
Charm and amusement, brilliantly acted by all. B&W, Ealing Studios, about 1950.
Movie Review: All three leads are completely winning and surprising.
Summary: 5 Stars
In this delightful British comedy, Alec Guinness is Henry St. James, the captain of a steam ship between Gibraltar and North Africa. In North Africa waits his wife Nita (Yvonne de Carlo), a beautiful hot blooded spitfire with whom he dances the nights away and drinks champagne. In Gibraltar waits his prim and proper wife Maud (Celia Johnson) - a woman delighted with a new vacuum cleaner as an anniversary gift.
With Maud, St. James has home-cooked meals and a mug of hot chocolate before promptly turning in at 10:00. The only one in on the captain's double life is his envious first mate. All is well until each woman begins to want what the other has. All three leads are completely winning and surprising.
Movie Review: It is difficult to find the perfect wife.
Summary: 5 Stars
Alec Guinness thinks he's found a solution to this age old problem, but it doesn't quite work out.
I found this movie to be more of a study of female psychology rather than the male.
We learn that most women have two sides; naughty, and nice.
This is why men find women like Sophia Loren (not in this movie) so attractive, because Sophia is 'Good' and 'Bad' at the same time.
Captain's Paradise is a terrific movie and lots of fun. The movie starts right up with no trailers, commercials, or other delays. The quality is excellent.
Movie Review: CAPTAIN' PARADISE reviewed
Summary: 5 Stars
tHE Captain of a ferry boat between Gibraltar and North Africa believes he has found the secret of happiness by having an English wife in Gibraltarwo is a homemaker and a Spanish wife in North AFRICA WO IS FUN-LOVING AND LIKES TO DANCE Things go badly wrong and he is about to be executed but bribes the firing squad whicvh shoots their commanding officer instead.