The Sailor from Gibraltar is a 1967 British romantic drama film directed by Tony Richardson and starring Jeanne Moreau, Ian Bannen, Vanessa Redgrave, Hugh Griffith and Orson Welles.

[5] Bored with his fiancée Sheila and with Florence, where they have gone for a holiday, Alan takes her to Bocca di Magra where he meets and sleeps with Anna, a rich woman whose yacht is anchored offshore.

After drawing blank in Greece and in Ethiopia, a third false lead in Egypt dents Anna's overriding will to continue.

But in Tony Richardson's very literalminded adaptation, all subtlety has been ironed out, leaving only one of those fulsome stories in which two hungering souls merely have to look at each other to find themselves borne along on the wings of a beautiful grand amour.

So it goes on till the end of the film, with brief interruptions from Orson Welles (gabbling a few incomprehensible lines), Zia Mohyeddin (doing a passable Peter Sellers imitation) and Hugh Griffith (muttering apocalyptically in the African jungle).