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Manuela

Manuela

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 18, 1957

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Drama

User Score

57%

Original Title

Manuela

Production Companies

Ivan Foxwell Productions

Director

Guy Hamilton

Description

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.