One Lone Girl in a Sea-World of Violent Men
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.
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Trevor Howard
James Prothero
Elsa Martinelli
Manuela Hunt
Pedro Armendáriz
Mario Constanza
Donald Pleasence
Evans
Jack MacGowran
Tommy
Leslie Weston
Bleloch
Warren Mitchell
Moss
Christopher Lee
Voice (voice)
Roger Delgado
Stranger
Harcourt Curaçao
Wellington Jones
Barry Lowe
Murphy
Juan Carolilla
Official
John Rae
Ferguson
Harold Kasket
Pereira
Max Butterfield
Bliss
