Films Directed by Anthony Kimmins (Study Guide) - The Captain's Paradise, It's in the Air, Smiley, Mine Own Executioner, Trouble Brewing (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: The Captain's Paradise, It's in the Air, Smiley, Mine Own Executioner, Trouble Brewing, Keep Fit, Aunt Clara. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Captain's Paradise is a 1953 British comedy film starring Alec Guinness and directed by Anthony Kimmins. It is set in Gibraltar and northern Morocco, and on a ship that travels between them. In 1958, the film was made into a Broadway musical comedy, retitled Oh, Captain . Captain Henry St. James (Alec Guinness) is in front of a firing squad and then learn of the curious chain of events that brought him to his fate. He was 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, very domestic 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. Growing overly careless, St. James begins to make several mistakes which leads to his second in command, Ricco (Charles Goldner), discovering the existence of both wives something that the Captain had concealed from his crew. Ricco agrees to assist St. James in maintaining the deception and is soon called into action when on a whim Maud flies to North Africa and enjoys a chance meeting with Nita. A panicked Ricco and St. James arrange to have Maud arrested and deported before she and Nita can realise that they are in fact married to the same person. He convinces Maud tha...http: //booksllc.net/?id=2312853