The Captain's Paradise by the DVD Man

The Captain's Paradise is one of those 1950's English comedies that I love so much. I had never seen this movie before and it was a big surprise to me.

To see Alec Guinness, who would go on to play Obi Wan Kanobi, get nominated for 5 Oscars and winning one for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Bridge on the River Kwai, flamenco dancing with a flower in his teeth, was great and very funny.

He plays a ferry boat captain on the Golden Fleece that runs between Gibralter & Spanish Morocco. He has found his paradise via bigamy. He has his traditional English wife in Gibralter and his hot latin Mistress in Morocco. He gives one a bikini and the other a vacuum cleaner. He figures he's got the best of both worlds and it works for about 7 years. One day, he mixes up the gifts and that tears it.

Then as we all know, the itch starts and each woman decides she needs to grow and switch roles, which confuses the Captain as he's only half a man to each of them. Of course, they both decide to leave him at the same time.

The final scene is a firing squad and the squad Captain says: "Fuego" which means fire in Spanish. There are no Franks, but Yvonne de Carlo has a great bad Spanish accent and there are plenty of Fezes and Vultures, so I've add those two as categories.