The Beachcomber (1954)

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Country: UK
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Release: 1954-08-10
Director: Muriel Box
Writers: Sydney Box , W. Somerset Maugham
Language: English
Stars: Glynis Johns , Robert Newton , Donald Sinden , Paul Rogers , Donald Pleasence , Walter Crisham , Michael Hordern , Auric Lorand , Tony Quinn , Ah Chong Choy
Runtime: 82 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Ateş adası (Turkey) , Ins Paradies verbannt , Etelämeren seikkailija (Finland) , Tropenætter (Denmark) , El vagabundo de las islas (Spain) , The Beachcomber (United States of America) , 島のならず者 (Japan) , The Beachcomber , To nisi tou diavolou (Greece) , Le vagabond des îles (Belgium) , Il grande flagello (Italy) , The Beachcomber (Canada) , Náufragos da Vida (Brazil) , Le vagabond des îles (France, French Republic) , Culegătorul vagabond al plajelor (Romania) , De vagebond der eilanden (Belgium) , O Vagabundo do Pacífico (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , The Beachcomber (United Kingdom) , Ins Paradies verdammt , En äventyrare i Söderhavet (Sweden)
Plot: Ewart Gray (Donald Sinden) is the new Resident-in-Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother and sister missionary team of Martha Jones (Glynis Johns) and Reverend Owen Jones (Paul Rogers), and Edward "Honorable Ted" Wilson (Robert Newton) - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.
IMDB:tt0046756