Pedro Amendariz meets Elsa Martinelli. She wants out of the tiny town she's living in and on to England..... her father was English. Armendariz agrees to smuggle her aboard his ship, where captain Trevor Howard is one of those men who is all brains and no heart, all shipping ambition and no human yearnings.... so when she turns up, he falls for her. But woman on ships are bad luck, and things start to go wrong. Soon the ship is at risk of being destroyed.
Guy Hamilton certainly hit the ground running when it came to directing movies; he had a string of prestigious and successful projects from his first movie in 1952, and here he was direcing this "sow, don't tell" drama of repression, ambition and love. It's sere in its handling, except for Armendariz, who, as always, leaks emotion, humor. and warmth in whatever he does on the screen.
As for Hamilton, he would peak in the 1960s, with British productions that were international hits; he directed three of the JAMES BOND pictures, cemented Michael Caine as a star.... and then became the director for big-budget adventure sequels in the 1970s, self-destructing in them in the 1980s. He died in 2016, 93 years old.
Guy Hamilton certainly hit the ground running when it came to directing movies; he had a string of prestigious and successful projects from his first movie in 1952, and here he was direcing this "sow, don't tell" drama of repression, ambition and love. It's sere in its handling, except for Armendariz, who, as always, leaks emotion, humor. and warmth in whatever he does on the screen.
As for Hamilton, he would peak in the 1960s, with British productions that were international hits; he directed three of the JAMES BOND pictures, cemented Michael Caine as a star.... and then became the director for big-budget adventure sequels in the 1970s, self-destructing in them in the 1980s. He died in 2016, 93 years old.