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The Captain is a Lady

(1940)

Charles Coburn is one of my favorite character actors from this period, in movies like The Devil in Miss Jones and The More the Merrier. But even he and Beulah Bondi can’t rescue this off-the-shelf script about a crusty old sea captain forced to live in a retirement home for old women. I gave up at about the 30 minute mark.