The Captain's Paradise (1953) Synopsis

Claude Ricco, the captain of the Golden Fleece, a small passenger ship that regularly sails the two day trip between the North African port of Kalique, where it is based, and the British territory of Gibraltar, is relaying to Lawrence St. James why his nephew, British national Henry St. James, the Golden Fleece's former captain and Ricco's friend, was just executed by firing squad in Kalique. Both men were aware that Henry had traveled the world in search of what he considered the perfect life, something that he found in his situation in Kalique/Gibraltar. Ricco tells of Henry's marriage to Nita St. James in Kalique, they who lived a life of wild nights out every night, champagne and partying, exotic Nita, a flamenco dancer, the type of woman who shared his want of that hedonistic lifestyle, at least in part on Henry's side. Ricco also tells of Henry's concurrent marriage to fellow Brit Maud St. James in Gibraltar, she a prim and proper woman with who he shared a want for a domesticated lifestyle as tea-totaling homebodies, albeit with the occasional nip of sherry. Henry felt that each woman fulfilled half his needs, each half discrete and thus they in combination fulfilling him wholly. He was able to hide each woman from the other and Maud largely from the crew of the ship due to the restricted access the women would have had specifically to the ship, and he being the only person on the Golden Fleece with a British passport allowing unabated access into Gibraltar. Henry's march to the firing squad was indirectly related to he not being able to see that he was only seeing in each of his wives half a woman.—Huggo

Claude Ricco, the captain of the Golden Fleece, a small passenger ship that regularly sails the two day trip between the North African port of Kalique, where it is based, and the British territory of Gibraltar, is relaying to Lawrence St. James why his nephew, British national Henry St. James, the Golden Fleece's former captain and Ricco's friend, was just executed by firing squad in Kalique. Both men were aware that Henry had traveled the world in search of what he considered the perfect life, something that he found in his situation in Kalique/Gibraltar. Ricco tells of Henry's marriage to Nita St. James in Kalique, they who lived a life of wild nights out every night, champagne and partying, exotic Nita, a flamenco dancer, the type of woman who shared his want of that hedonistic lifestyle, at least in part on Henry's side. Ricco also tells of Henry's concurrent marriage to fellow Brit Maud St. James in Gibraltar, she a prim and proper woman with who he shared a want for a domesticated lifestyle as tea-totaling homebodies, albeit with the occasional nip of sherry. Henry felt that each woman fulfilled half his needs, each half discrete and thus they in combination fulfilling him wholly. He was able to hide each woman from the other and Maud largely from the crew of the ship due to the restricted access the women would have had specifically to the ship, and he being the only person on the Golden Fleece with a British passport allowing unabated access into Gibraltar. Henry's march to the firing squad was indirectly related to he not being able to see that he was only seeing in each of his wives half a woman.—Huggo

Published Time: 2020-03-02 21:03:56