The Beachcomber
1954 · 82 MIN · IMDB 6.2 · 378 VOTES · DIR. Muriel Box
Overview
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,069 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:39 I WAS STILL THREE WEEKS SHORT
00:05:10 WELCOME TO BARRU.
00:07:32 IT'S ALMOST SUPPERTIME.
00:10:29 I SHOULD HOPE SO.
00:12:53 OH, I SEE.
00:15:39 MISSIONARY GENTLEMAN IS HERE, MASTER.
00:17:48 WELL, GET MY SHOES.
00:19:50 AH, GOOD MORNING, MY FRIEND.
00:24:18 YOU'VE BEEN PICKED UP IN THE STREETS
00:26:51 IF YOU BEHAVE YOURSELF
00:33:14 RELEASE RIGHT AWAY.
00:39:02 FEELING BETTER?
00:43:02 I CAN MANAGE PERFECTLY WELL BY MYSELF.
00:48:30 HELLO, TED.
00:50:24 WHAT ON EARTH WAS HE TALKING ABOUT?
00:52:24 YOU'LL DO WHAT YOU CAN, WON'T YOU?
00:54:41 ALL RIGHT. MY PLACE, THURSDAY, 7:00.
00:59:46 THOSE THAT AREN'T INFECTED ALREADY ARE IN DANGER.
01:01:23 MARTHA, DO YOU REALLY -
01:04:05 HONORABLE MASTER TED TO SEE YOU, SIR.
01:07:40 TO THEM, IT'S A SORT OF INSURANCE POLICY.
01:11:34 I USED TO WONDER WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE
01:16:09 OH, IT'S REALLY QUITE SIMPLE.
01:23:16 ¶ THE LORD GOD MADE THEM ALL ¶
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,069
Dialogue density13.0 lines / min
First line00:01:39
Final line01:23:16
Production Record
DirectorMuriel Box
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes378