Another Shore

Another Shore
Film poster
Directed by	Charles Crichton
Written by	Kenneth Reddin (story) Walter Meade (screenplay)
Produced by	Michael Balcon Ivor Montagu
Starring	Robert Beatty Moira Lister Stanley Holloway
Cinematography	Douglas Slocombe
Edited by	Bernard Gribble
Music by	Georges Auric
Production company	Ealing Studios
Distributed by	General Film Distributors
Release date	20 December 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 Kenneth Reddin, an Irish judge.

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 (actor) – Bats Vere-Brown
• Muriel Aked – Old lady
• Wilfrid Brambell – Arthur Moore
• Michael J. Dolan – Twiss

External links

• Another Shore at IMDb
• Review at Variety