This festive comedy has a theme song that was incredibly popular in its day – but which is missing a verse! The penultimate verse ends as follows: "...there were 39 sailors and one girl, and that's why the censors deleted the last verse." In 1965, it was new and very daring for a girl to go to sea in the merchant navy. But fortunately, Peer Guldbrandsen and director Annelise Reenberg saw that girls also had a future at sea when they wrote the film's screenplay based on Else Boyes' best-selling novel. The moral frown is replaced by a big smile when the pretty radio operator, Else, boards the M/S Warrigal, owned by the magnificent shipowner, Wilhelmine Jacobsen. The trip from Brønshøj to Bangkok – and back – becomes as festive as an archetypal Danish male society can manage when a pretty girl destroys their age-old traditions.
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Birgit Sadolin as Else Jensen
Karl Stegger as Otto Jensen
Morten Grunwald as Peter Eberhardt
Axel Strøbye as Captain Barker
Ove Sprogøe as Andersen
Poul Bundgaard as Ship's Cook Alfred
Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen as Wilhelmine Jacobsen
Bjørn Puggaard-Müller as Chief Officer Karlson
Arthur Jensen as Hovmesteren
Kirsten Søberg as Fru Jensen
Jan Priiskorn Schmidt as Holger, messedreng
Erik Kühnau as 2. Styrmanden Walther
Ove Rud as Maskinmesteren Poul
Holger Vistisen as Maskinmesteren Erik
Hugo Herrestrup as Sailor Olsen
Valsø Holm as Sailor Jensen
Jesper Langberg as Sailor Lauritsen
Bent Vejlby as Sailor Sørensen
Ernst Meyer as Sailor (uncredited)
Alvin Linnemann as Sailor (uncredited)
Henry Nielsen as Vognmand Christiansen
Gunnar Bigum as Party Goer (uncredited)
Ole Søltoft as 3. styrmanden Niels
Ib Christensen as Party Goer (uncredited)
Flemming Dyjak as Matros (uncredited)
Inga Løfgren as Secretary (uncredited)
Marteng Petersen as Koksmat (uncredited)
Bente Puggaard-Müller as Nightclub Guest (uncredited)
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