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Een pige og 39 sømænd (1965)

Een pige og 39 sømænd (1965)

Comedy Romance
Release Date: 1965, November 12
Directors: Annelise Reenberg
Countries: Denmark
Production: Saga Studio
Cast: Ove Sprogøe, Poul Bundgaard, Morten Grunwald, Jesper Langberg, Axel Strøbye, Ove Rud, Arthur Jensen, Hugo Herrestrup, Birgit Sadolin, Holger Vistisen, Ernst Meyer, Flemming Dyjak

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.

Keywords:

woman director sailor