Sea Wife (1957)
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42% of users liked it
(66 ratings)
In this melodramatic adventure set after the British evacuated Singapore in 1942, a ship is torpedoed and only four people survive. They are a nun, an RAF officer, a godless bigoted business magnate, and a black purser. The four drift for days before getting themselves washed up on a small desert… More In this melodramatic adventure set after the British evacuated Singapore in 1942, a ship is torpedoed and only four people survive. They are a nun, an RAF officer, a godless bigoted business magnate, and a black purser. The four drift for days before getting themselves washed up on a small desert island. Before they reach the shore, a shark consumes the purser. The other three safely land and struggle to survive. Time passes and the RAF officer falls in love with the nun, who never tells him that she is one. Later they are rescued, and the officer begins looking for her in vain. At one point he passes her dressed in her habit on a London street, but he doesn't recognize her. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Bob McNaught
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Aug 2, 1957 Wide
- On DVD
- Jul 10, 2007
Critic Reviews
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Dan Jardine, Apollo Guide
Sea Wife is one of those turgid and morose melodramas that were inexplicably popular in the post-Second World War period.
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Cast
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Joan Collins
as Sea Wife
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Richard Burton
as Biscuit
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Basil Sydney
as Bulldog
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Cy Grant
as Number Four
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Ronald Squire
as Clubman
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Harold Goodwin
as Daily Telegraph clerk
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Gibb McLaughlin
as Club porter
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Roddy Hughes
as Club barman
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Lloyd Lamble
as Capt. "San Felix"
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Ronald Adam
as Army Padre
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Nicholas Hannen
as Elderly passenger
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Beatrice Varley
as Elderly nun
- Sandra Caron
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Joan Hickson
as Scribe
- Nora Nicholson
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Eileen Way
as Mrs. Giass
- John Wood
- Vilma Ann Leslie
- Edith Saville
- Yvette Wyatt
