The Admirable Crichton (1957 film)

The Admirable Crichton released in the United States as Paradise Lagoon is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, and Sally Ann Howes. The film was based on J.M. Barries 1902 stage comedy of the same name.

When Lady Catherine Mercy Haystead, one of the Earls daughters, is arrested at a suffragette protest, Crichton recommends the family take a trip on the Earls steam yacht to the South Seas until the scandal dies down. When the yachts motors explode during a storm, all are forced to abandon ship. By the time Crichton rescues the still sleeping tweeny maid Eliza Diane Cilento, the lifeboats have already departed. They jump into the water and are picked up by the wrong boat, the one reserved for the upper class.Crichton, Eliza, the Earl, his daughters Mary Sally Ann Howes, Catherine and Agatha Miranda Connell, clergyman John Treherne Jack Watling, and Lord Ernest Woolley Gerald Harper land on a deserted island. The aristocrats prove to be helpless in their strange new surroundings. It is up to Crichton to start a fire, provide shelter, and find food. ........

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