In The Captain’s Paradise Alec Guinness plays the thoroughly selfish and conceited Henry St James captaining a ship between Gibraltar and Morocco. When he’s in Gibraltar with his straight-laced British wife Maud, played by Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter), he eats at home and goes to bed early. However, when he’s with his fiery Spanish wife Nita (Yvonne De Carlo), he stays out dancing into the small hours. Problems arise when his wives begin to demand more than the life he has carved out for each of them, and it doesn’t take long for St James’ perfect ‘paradise’ to collapse.

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