HE'S GONE TO THE DOGS...And He Likes It!
Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic, Ginger Ted and Miss Jones are sent to an outlying part of the islands to run a hospital; on their return, their motorboat breaks down, and they are marooned overnight on a small island.
- 6.7
- 1938
- Released
- 1h 32m
Charles Laughton
Ginger Ted
Elsa Lanchester
Martha Jones
Robert Newton
The Controleur
Tyrone Guthrie
Dr Owen Jones
Eliot Makeham
The Native Head Clerk
Dolly Mollinger
Lia
D.A. Ward
AlbertJ. Solomon
Sgt. HenrikReleased
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- #missionary
- #drunk
Reviews
Maybe not one of W. Somerset Maugham's more complex stories, but it still gives us a chance to watch Robert Newton, Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester give us a bit of the reverse "Sadie Thompson". It's the unlikable "Ginger Ted" (Laughton) who manages to upset the rather puritanical "Martha" (Lanchester) and her minister-brother "Owen" (Tyrone Guthrie). She demands that local magistrate (Newton