Another Shore

Another Shore
Film poster
Directed by	Charles Crichton
Written by	Kenneth Reddin (story) Walter Meade (screenplay)
Starring	Robert Beatty Moira Lister Stanley Holloway
Music by	Georges Auric
Release dates	1948 (1948)
Running time	77 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Another Shore is a 1948 Ealing Studios comedy film/tragedy filmed in Ireland. It stars Robert Beatty as Gulliver Shields, an Irish customs official who dreams of living on a South Sea island; particularly Rarotonga. It is based on the book by Justice Kenneth Reddin.

Robert Beatty was a Canadian actor who had a major success playing an IRA man in Odd Man Out.

Synopsis

Gulliver leaves his job in Dublin to sit on a park bench waiting for an elderly person to faint that in his mind, he will rescue and they will reward him with an amount of money to get him to the South Seas. He meets Jennifer, a society playgirl who is fascinated by Gulliver's indifference to her. The day of destiny comes when he has to choose between his dreams and Jennifer.

Main cast

• Robert Beatty - Gulliver Shields
• Moira Lister - Jennifer
• Stanley Holloway - Alastair McNeil
• Michael Medwin - Yellow Bingham
• Sheila Manahan - Nora
• Fred O'Donovan - Coghlan
• Maureen Delany - Mrs Gleeson
• Dermot Kelly - Boxer
• Irene Worth - Bucsy Vere-Brown
• Bill Shine - Bats Vere-Brown
• Muriel Aked - Old lady
• Wilfrid Brambell - Arthur Moore
• Michael J. Dolan - Twiss

External links

• Another Shore at the Internet Movie Database
• Review at Variety