Story Line
This festive comedy has a theme song that was incredibly popular in its day – but which is missing a verse! The penultimate verse ends as follows: "...there were 39 sailors and one girl, and that's why the censors deleted the last verse." In 1965, it was new and very daring for a girl to go to sea in the merchant navy. But fortunately, Peer Guldbrandsen and director Annelise Reenberg saw that girls also had a future at sea when they wrote the film's screenplay based on Else Boyes' best-selling novel. The moral frown is replaced by a big smile when the pretty radio operator, Else, boards the M/S Warrigal, owned by the magnificent shipowner, Wilhelmine Jacobsen. The trip from Brønshøj to Bangkok – and back – becomes as festive as an archetypal Danish male society can manage when a pretty girl destroys their age-old traditions.
Top Cast
Birgit Sadolin
Else Jensen
Karl Stegger
Otto Jensen
Morten Grunwald
Peter Eberhardt
Axel Strøbye
Captain Barker
Ove Sprogøe
Andersen
Poul Bundgaard
Ship's Cook Alfred
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Rating
Release Date
1965-11-12
Runtime
1h 55m
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