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    Sea Wife (UK, 1957)



    This film has been playing a lot on UK tv recently, and there is something about its tone (very rooted in the mid-1950s) which rather appeals to me: the early London scenes in colour/scope, the title song by David Whitfield (did ever do any others?), the ever so handsome Richard Burton shorn of most of his irritating vocal mannerisms, and the unlikely casting of Joan Collins as a nun (only Marilyn Monroe would have been more unlikely....) .



    The plot is based on the type of novel I used to borrow from Boots lending library. I have now watched Sea Wife four times, and it is on again this week.



    Is anybody else attracted to this movie ?










    Richard Burton ('Biscuit') tries to romance Joan Collins ('Sea Wife'), but he does not know that she belongs to another......

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    I've got a copy of the original Pan paperback of the novel, Julian - it's on the list (with about a thousand others...) to read. It mentions the film on the cover.



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    A great afternoon movie when you've pulled a sickie.



    One of my favourite Burton films.

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    In the 80s, I took over a studio position from one of the crew who worked on "Sea Wife". He told some lurid stories about the time spent filming, which unfortunately, were I to repeat them here, would have me in Court for libel!!

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    Can he confirm any of the locations for SEA WIFE , especially the 'desert island' ?



    I hope Joan was behaving throughout in a suitably nun-like manner.......

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    Julian,



    Unfortunately, he died in the 80s in a car crash on the M3 motorway, along with his wife and son. His daughter was badly injured, but recovered. I believe that the externals were shot in Jamaica, but don't quote me.



    However, Captain Casper is heading in the right direction!

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    In case anyone is looking for the original paperback book, I believe the title is actually "Sea Wyfe". Don't ask me why, but the writing credits in the film titles spell it this way as well.

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    Sea-Wyfe .



    The story started in real life with a strange series of messages that appeared in the personal column of a London newspaper, it was a correspondece between two people, a man and a woman. The public was intrigued and there debates as to what the messages were about. Novelist J. M. Scott vowed to find out and claimed to have tracked down the correspondents. When his book first appeared - first called Sea-Wyfe and Biscuit - he said it was a true story but he was respecting the anonymity of the protaganists. It was all lies, Scott had engineered the whole thing himself sending fake messages to the newspaper and building up the suspense. A very clever bit of Hocus Pocus - it deserved to succeed.



    I liked the movie but the book is better. The movie reveals the secret too soon.



    Dave

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    Remember that one well. Especially the ending
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    in which Richard Burton is searching in vain for Joan Collins and politely nods to some passing nuns. Joan Collins says to her fellow nun that "nobody really looks at a nun's face, do they?"

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