Sea Wife

Sea Wife 1957 is a DeLuxe CinemaScope British film based on the 1955 James Maurice Scott novel SeaWyf. Shot in Jamaica, the film follows a group of survivors from a torpedoed British refugee ship.

In 1942, people crowd aboard a ship, the San Felix, to get away before Singapore falls to the Japanese Army. Biscuit is brusquely shouldered aside by a determined older man later nicknamed Bulldog Basil Sydney, who insists the ships black purser Number Four Cy Grant evict the people from the cabin he has reserved. However, when he sees that it is occupied by children and nuns, he reluctantly relents. The nun with her back to him is the beautiful young Sister Therese Sea Wife Joan Collins. Later, the San Felix is torpedoed by a submarine. Biscuit, Sea Wife, Bulldog and Number Four manage to get to a small liferaft. Only Number Four knows that Sea Wife is a nun she asks him to keep her secret.It soon becomes evident that Bulldog is a racist who does not trust Number Four. Later, they encounter a Japanese submarine whose captain at first refuses to give aid, but gives them food and water when Number Four talks to him in Japanese, though what he said is kept a secret between him and Sea Wife. ........

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