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.

Released Nov. 12, 1965 115 min None+

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Keywords: tmdb.sailor, tmdb.woman-director, imdb.f-rated, imdb.sailor, imdb.job, aspectratio.1-66-1

Production Companies: Saga Studio

Country: Denmark
Production Country: Denmark
Languages: Danish