Kapitän Seekrank

Originaltitel: Barnacle Bill

1957
Unrated
1 Std. 27 Min.

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Alec Guinness, Jackie Collins, and Junia Crawford in Kapitän Seekrank (1957)

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition.A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition.A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition.

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The last movie that Sir Alec Guinness made for Ealing Studios.

Patzer
When Captain Ambrose arrives in France, a close-up shot shows him taking the cotton wool out of his ears. In the next shot, the cotton wool is still in his ears.

Zitate
Figg: Is that how they do it in the Navy, sir?
Capt. William Horatio Ambrose: I take it you are never in the service, Figg?
Figg: I never wanted to be. I've spent all my life on a dredger and if you're going to run this pier like a battleship, I shall be sorry I left it.
Capt. William Horatio Ambrose: Well, I am going to run it like a battleship. All the best piers in the country or run naval-style and, under my command, Sandcastle pier will be no exception. I shan't be satisfied until everything is ship-... er... pier-shape and Blackpool-fashion.

Crazy Credits
Against a background of high seas, the opening credit text rolls with the waves, up off the screen and down under water, with motion so realistic it almost makes the audience seasick.

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5/10

Ship of fools earn the last laugh

Low key citizens versus the establishment comedy from Ealing Studios stars Alec Guinness as a would-be naval captain, prevented from of a life spent at sea by acute sea sickness, his consolation is to convert a peer into a amusement park depicting a luxury cruise liner, but the local council led by Maurice Denham wants to close him down.

Guinness has multiple roles (as visions) while Irene Browne plays his ally in the fight against Denham and his cronies (principally Lionel Jeffries and Victor Maddern), with growing sympathy from members of the council who see his amusement park as a positive investment for tourism (Alan Cuthbertson, principally). Prolific Percy Herbert plays Guinness' faithful first mate, while Richard Wattis and Donald Pleasance have minor cameos.

Though it's probably one of Guinness' most obscure movies (there's a reference to a better known Guinness' 1950 film "The Mudlark"), it remains a capable comic farce, middle of the road comedy carrying most of the hallmarks that made Ealing the manufacturer synonymous with traditional British comedies in the 1950's.