The Beachcomber | Telescope Film
The Beachcomber

The Beachcomber

User Rating

  • United Kingdom
  • 1938
  • · 92m

Director Erich Pommer
Cast Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton, Tyrone Guthrie, Eliot Makeham, Dolly Mollinger
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance

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.

Stream The Beachcomber

We hate to say it, but we can't find anywhere to view this film.