Een pige og 39 sømænd (1965)

Een pige og 39 sømænd (1965)

1965-11-12 Denmark 115 Min. PG-13
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Overview

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.

Cast

Birgit Sadolin is Else Jensen
Else Jensen
Karl Stegger is Otto Jensen
Otto Jensen
Morten Grunwald is Peter Eberhardt
Peter Eberhardt
Axel Strøbye is Captain Barker
Captain Barker
Ove Sprogøe is Andersen
Andersen
Poul Bundgaard is Ship's Cook Alfred
Ship's Cook Alfred
Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen is Wilhelmine Jacobsen
Wilhelmine Jacobsen
Bjørn Puggaard-Müller is Chief Officer Karlson
Chief Officer Karlson
Arthur Jensen is Hovmesteren
Hovmesteren
Kirsten Søberg is Fru Jensen
Fru Jensen
Jan Priiskorn Schmidt is Holger, messedreng
Holger, messedreng
Erik Kühnau is 2. Styrmanden Walther
2. Styrmanden Walther