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The Sailor from Gibraltar
UNITED KINGDOM · 1967

The Sailor from Gibraltar

Tony Richardson
obsession lost love mystery romantic pursuit unreliable memory
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Synopsis

Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor. After a stop in Africa, Louis de Mozambique joins the party and suggests that the sailor may never have existed other than in Anna's mind.

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