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Vessel of Wrath (The Beachcomber)

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Original title

Year

1938

Running time

92 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Erich Pommer

Screenwriter

Bartlett Cormack. Novel: William Somerset Maugham

Cast

Music

Richard Addinsell

Cinematography

Jules Kruger (B&W)

Producer

Mayflower Pictures Corporation

Genre

Drama

Movie Groups

W. Somerset Maugham Adaptations

Synopsis

Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson (Charles Laughton) a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones,(Elsa Lanchester) a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic, Ginger Ted and Miss Jones are sent to an outlying part of the islands to run a hospital; on their return, their motorboat breaks down, and they are marooned overnight on a small island. Miss Jones is certain that Ginger Ted means to rape her as soon as the sun goes down. When morning comes and her virtue is still intact, she is convinced that he has had a change of heart and that he is a good man in spite of his many faults. Ginger Ted himself is outraged by this explanation; it never occurred to him to rape Miss Jones, who is middle-aged and unattractive. Nevertheless, at the end of the story, Miss Jones and Ginger Ted have married and Ginger Ted, now known as Edward, have moved back to England run an inn.

Awards: 1938: National Board of Review: Top Ten Film

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Vessel of Wrath (The Beachcomber)

1938

Erich Pommer