Jul 3rd  
The Captain's Paradise**         
(GB 1953)                   
British Lion/London Films. 89m. bw

A Gibraltar cruiser captain keeps two wives in separate ports, until their respective personalities start to switch places...
Contrived and easy going if slightly predictable comedy, with actors who enjoyably let their hair down.     
                          
Written by: Alec Coppel, Nicholas Phipps.
Producer/Director: Anthony Kimmins.
Starring: Alec Guinness, Celia Johnson, Yvonne de Carlo, Charles Goldner, Miles Malleson, Bill Fraser, Nicholas Phipps.
Photography: Ted Scaife.
Music: Malcolm Arnold.

Preceded by:
Dead on Time*
(GB 1982. 31m.;  A man is misdiagnosed as being terminally ill, and rushes around Covent Garden to spend his last 30 minutes. Frantically overwritten experimental short vehicle for an actor who generally found better effect as a mainly visual comedian.; w: Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson; p, d: Lyndall Hobbs; s: Rowan Atkinson, Nigel Hawthorne, Robin Bailey, Jim Broadbent, Greta Scacchi, and others.)