1964 slog Käre John ned som en bomb i filmvärlden. Olle Länsbergs skandalroman hade sålt i enorma upplagor så förväntningarna var höga och infriades! Historien om sjömannen John och servitrisen Anna förtrollade biopubliken med sina (för sin tid) vågade scener mellan Jarl Kulle och Christina Schollin succéparet från Änglar, finns dom…

Över en miljon biobesökare hastade iväg för att se filmen i Sverige och med 25 miljoner inspelade kr i USA blev den vår dittills största exportsuccé. Och som om det inte vore nog nominerades filmen till en Oscar för Bästa utländska film. Kära nån!

Från IMDB:
John is a shipmaster on a very small transportation boat which regularly attends a very small harbour to buy food, actually from Annas father. She is a waitress and has a young daughter. She tells John that her name is Anita. They have met many times, but their first personal meeting is when both are swimming in early morning. John is asked to have morning coffee with Annas family. He invites her and her child to a trip to Zoo in Copenhagen. Both have genuine feelings for each other. There are lovely three-some scenes when John is proud of being a father, and beautiful love scenes. Christina Schollins naked body is cute but never obtrusive. But at that time girls were depreciated if they gave in too soon. So these scenes repeatedly alternate with hot misunderstandings, well-known exactly when two people with genuine feelings fear misunderstandings and try to preclude them. In the last minutes of the movie, when each has left the harbour village on the next day, and John has learned the real name of Anita and calls her from the boat, both realise without saying anything about it, that this is the beginning of a long relationship based on mutual feelings.