Passage on the Lady Anne story
To save their marriage, a couple book a cruise on a ship whose other passengers are elderly. Directed by: Lamont Johnson. Story by: Charles Beaumont.
15 total · 1 choice · 8 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| reconciliation | choice | A point of the story was to show how to quarreling spouses might reconcile their differences and rekindle their marriage. |
| coping with aging | major | The Lady Anne passengers, not including Alan and Eileen, and crew were old and tired of life. |
| disintegrating romantic relationship | major | Alan and Eileen embarked on an ocean voyage in a last ditched effort to try to save their marriage. |
| facing death | major | The various old people aboard Lady Anne were thinking about their lives knowing that they were traveling to the hereafter. |
| ghost ship | major | It becomes gradually apparent that the ship Lady Anne was connected with the afterlife, though many details are left open for interpretation. |
| husband and wife | major | Alan and Eileen Ransome embarked on a trans-Atlantic voyage on a quaint, but presumably doomed ocean liner. The elderly married couple Tobias and Millicent McKenzie. |
| love vs. career | major | Alan had to choose between his marriage and his career. |
| matrimonial love | major | Alan and Eileen, whose marriage was on the rocks, rekindled their love for one another while voyaging about the Lady Anne. |
| suicide | major | One interpretation of the story is that the elderly people aboard the Lady Anne had entered into a suicide pact of some sort. |
| divorce | minor | Eileen said she planned to leave Alan as their marriage was rather shot. Alan agreed, and only later did they change their minds. |