A rarely seen movie, Sea Wife (1957), a British film that is photographed by cinematographer Ted Scaife (2 other familiar films demonstrating Scaife's skill are The African Queen & Outcast of the Islands). It has that lovely, soft and watery color that English movies had once upon a time, and Sea Wife is being broadcast on Fox Movie Channel (FMC) tomorrow, Tue., July 8th at 7:30 AM EDT.
Okay, so it's not the greatest, according to those who've posted about it on IMDb, but, if you'd like to see a small scale story with some romantic charm that offers us a glimpse of Joan Collins and Richard Burton when they were young, beautiful, and not so jaded as they later became, you just might like it. This is well before they became walking caricatures and could still try to play human beings.
The story concerns four shipwrecked people during the war adrift in a small boat. Basil Sydney plays a naval administrator who's also a bigot and Cy Grant gives dignity to a character called "Number Four", a black seaman who knows more than he will tell.
It's one more movie that used to be a regular on Million Dollar Movie on Channel 9 out of NYC. Directed by Bob McNaught (who replaced Roberto Rossellini at the last minute). It begins, interestingly, with a personal ad and all the stories are told in flashback from differing viewpoints, a storytelling device that can be quite effective.
Though I haven't seen it in many years, in memory it seems to be a "nice" movie, not an earthshaking one. Maybe you'll be in the mood for it too?