Release Date

12 Nov, 1965

Runtime

01:55: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Een pige og 39 sømænd

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Actors

Birgit Sadolin

Karl Stegger

Morten Grunwald

Axel Strøbye

Ove Sprogøe

Poul Bundgaard

Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen

Bjørn Puggaard-Müller

Arthur Jensen

Kirsten Søberg

Jan Priiskorn Schmidt

Erik Kühnau

Ove Rud

Holger Vistisen

Hugo Herrestrup

Valsø Holm

Jesper Langberg

Bent Vejlby

Ernst Meyer

Alvin Linnemann

Henry Nielsen

Crew

Annelise Reenberg

Else Boye

Peer Guldbrandsen

Annelise Reenberg