The Beachcomber 1954 Ewart Gray Donald Sinden is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the sanctimonious, psalm singing brother and sister missionary team of Martha Jones Glynis Johns and Reverend Owen Jones Paul Rogers, and Edward Honorable Ted Wilson Robert Newton a hard drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread