Sea Wife (1957)


Sea Wife
Release Date20 August 1957
TaglineWhat happened out there...in the surging vastness of the India Ocean?
GenreDrama, Thriller, War, Adventure
CountryUK
LanguageEnglish, Japanese
Sound Mix4-Track Stereo, Mono
ColorColor
Film TypeFeature
Film ClassMelodrama, Adventure Drama, Romantic Adventure
ThemesStar-Crossed Lovers, Members of the Clergy, Stranded
TonesTearjerking
TagsBusinessperson, Deception, Island, Love, Nun, Royal Air Force, Shark

Sea Wife (1957) is a British film based on the 1955 James Maurice Scott novel Sea-Wyf and Biscuit. Shot in Jamaica, the film is set around events in 1942 among a group of survivors from a torpedoed British refugee ship.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Sea Wife

Biscuit

Bulldog

Number Four

Clubman

Harold Goodwin
Daily Telegraph Clerk

Roddy Hughes
Club Barman

Gibb McLaughlin
Club Porter

Captain 'San Felix'

Army Padre

Elderly Passenger

Otokichi Ikeda
Submarine Commander

Tenji Takagi
Submarine Interpreter

Elderly Nun

Director

Bob McNaught
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Writer

George K. Burke

J.M. Scott

Producer

André Hakim
producer

Original Music

Kenneth V. Jones
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Leonard Salzedo
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Cinematographer

Edward Scaife

Editor

Peter Taylor
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Art Director

Arthur Lawson
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Makeup Department

Trevor Crole-Rees
makeup artist

Harold Fletcher
makeup artist

Barbara Barnard
hair stylist

Production Manager

Ben Arbeid
production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Robert Lynn
assistant director

Ted Sturgis
assistant director

Art Department

John Hoesli
assistant art director

Don Picton
assistant art director

Sound Department

Basil Fenton-Smith
sound mixer

Frank Goulding
dubbing editor

J.B. Smith
sound mixer

Peter Davies
post-synchronisation

Special Effects

George Blackwell
special effects

Jack Welch
special effects

Visual Effects

Tom Howard
photographic effects

Camera and Electrical Department

John von Kotze
camera operator

Dennis Fraser
grip

Paul Wilson
first assistant camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Bill Walsh
wardrobe supervisor

Eileen Welch
wardrobe mistress

Music Department

Muir Mathieson
conductor

Other Crew

André Hakim
presenter

Betty Harley
continuity

Production Company

Alma Productions
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Distributor

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Miscellaneous

Sinfonia of London
music played by

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
this film is made under licence from, registered proprietor of the trade mark CinemaScope






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