Film · Comedy, Romance
Een pige og 39 sømænd (1965)
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.
- Director
- Annelise Reenberg
- Writers
- Else Boye, Peer Guldbrandsen, Annelise Reenberg
- Country
- Denmark
- Language
- Danish
- Release date
- November 12, 1965
Cast
Birgit SadolinElse Jensen
Karl SteggerOtto Jensen
Morten GrunwaldPeter Eberhardt
Axel StrøbyeCaptain Barker
Ove SprogøeAndersen
Poul BundgaardShip's Cook Alfred
Sigrid Horne-RasmussenWilhelmine Jacobsen
Bjørn Puggaard-MüllerChief Officer Karlson
Arthur JensenHovmesteren
Kirsten SøbergFru Jensen
Jan Priiskorn SchmidtHolger, messedreng
Erik Kühnau2. Styrmanden Walther
Ove RudMaskinmesteren Poul
Holger VistisenMaskinmesteren Erik
Hugo HerrestrupSailor Olsen
Valsø HolmSailor Jensen
Jesper LangbergSailor Lauritsen
Bent VejlbySailor Sørensen
Ernst MeyerSailor (uncredited)
Alvin LinnemannSailor (uncredited)
