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Director Pen Tennyson’s 1940 British Ealing Studios black and white flag-waving war film Convoy is a suitably laid-back, grace-under-fire portrayal of everyday World War Two seafaring existence. It is his third and last film. But […]
Director Gordon Douglas’s 1950 swashbuckling adventure film Fortunes of Captain Blood is an acceptably humble adventure, based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini, though the routine script and direction, and the cheap-looking Columbia Pictures production […]
Director John Farrow’s 1955 wartime action adventure The Sea Chase has an extraordinary piece of casting in John Wayne playing Captain Karl Erlich, the anti-Nazi German captain of a freighter, anxious to set out from Sydney […]
Gregory Peck stands steady in a tense and taciturn star turn as the fictional early 19th century British Navy hero Captain Horatio Hornblower at the helm of producer-director Raoul Walsh’s 1951 ocean-going story based on C […]
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