Sea Wife is a 1957 British CinemaScope drama thriller war film directed by Bob McNaught and starring Joan Collins and Richard Burton.

[3][4] Michael Cannon returns to London after the Second World War and places adverts in the personal columns of newspapers in an effort to re-unite with "Sea Wife", a lost acquaintance.

Biscuit encounters "Bulldog", who insists the ship's black purser, later to be nicknamed "Number Four", evict the people from the cabin he has reserved.

Here, the flashback ends, and the narrative returns to "Bulldog's" hospital room in London, where he informs Biscuit that Sea Wife died on the rescue ship.

However, before actual shooting began in Jamaica, Rossellini, whose script would have invited censorship problems, bowed out of the production and was replaced by Bob McNaught.

[5] Sensing early during shooting that the film would wind up a dud, Burton concentrated his energies on two objectives: Joan Collins, who rejected his advances,[6] and drinking, to fight insomnia.

[7] During initial exhibition of Sea Wife, The Daily Telegraph distributed miniaturized copies of the personal ads placed by "Biscuit" as a means of promoting itself as well as the film.

The deserted-island scenes for this movie were photographed at the same Ocho Rios, Jamaica, location that had previously been used in such pictures as Island of Desire (1953) and All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953).