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.
Acting
Glynis Johns and Robert Newton's deliciously sparring opposites-attract energy.
Direction
Muriel Box brings sly feminist edge to 1950s colonial storytelling.
Director
Muriel Box
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robert Newton was fresh off his iconic Long John Silver in 'Treasure Island' — here he weaponizes that same theatrical swagger for comedy.
Director Muriel Box was one of few women helming British features in the 1950s; her satirical eye on colonial piety was quietly radical for its time.
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