Comedy
Romance
Three retired sea captains living together in genteel squalor. They scheme to improve their fortunes by having one of them solicit a bride through an ad in a Boston newspaper. The loser of a coin toss must get married and take in the other two as boarders. But upon the arrival of the Nantucket woman selected from the applicants, the captains get cold feet.
Directors
David Carradine
Capt. Zebulon Hedge
Rip Torn
Capt. Jeremiah Burgess
Bruce Dern
Capt. Perez Ryder
Mariel Hemingway
Martha
Charles Durning
John Bartlett
Jason Alan Smith
Ralph Hazeltine
Christy Scott Cashman
Elisabeth Preston
Angelica Page
Melissa Busteed
John Savage
Web Saunders
Julie Harris
Melodeon Player
Stephen Russell
Luther Norris
Stephen Mailer
Squealer Wixon
Donald Foley
Bluey Bachelder
Miles Herter
Dr. Palmer
Jonathan Edwards
Rev. Perley
Beverly Bentley
Mrs. Small
Lila Dupree
Pasha Norris
Ryan Stanger
Ben
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