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.

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Cast

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 Mailer

Squealer Wixon

Beverly Bentley

Mrs. Small