Grand Canary

Labored adaptation of A.J. Cronin's novel about a shipload of passengers on their way to the Canary Islands. Baxter stars as the washed-up, alcoholic doctor who takes a cruise to escape a scandal back in Blighty. He spends most of the film staring at his stateroom walls and flashing back to past successes. A young female missionary, Johann, is in love with him from afar, but he's too interested in married woman Evans. Johann's brother, Norton, a religious zealot, finds himself involved in an affair with an older, bitter and cynical woman, but not much is done with this potentially interesting story line. Baxter finally is given a chance to redeem himself when it ap...