1935
THE BEACHCOMBER
William McFee
Chart History
3 weeks on the Hardcover Fiction list, peaking at #3
Ginger Ted, played by Charles Laughton, is an intelligent but drunken Englishman leading a degrading life among missionaries and natives on a lush island in the Dutch East Indies. He is facing deportation when an outbreak of fever on a neighboring island gives him a reprieve. He goes with Martha Jones, a missionary and nurse, to help the natives. Adversity and Miss Jones together bring out the best in him. Based on a story by Somerset Maughem, this comedy/drama is a wonderful character study and refreshing entertainment.
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Details
- Published
- 1935
- Pages
- 482
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran
English fiction
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