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Director John Frankenheimer’s 1969 American comedy war film The Extraordinary Seaman stars David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda and Mickey Rooney. The notable Frankenheimer career hits troubled waters with this daft World War Two whimsy that leaves delightful […]
The very spitting image of Captain Birdseye, Lionel Barrymore has a whale of a time with his role as sea Captain Bering Joy, a spectacularly grizzled ship’s captain, in this entertaining, old-fashioned sea saga about […]
Director Clarence Brown’s 1952 film Plymouth Adventure is MGM’s costly, sincere and well made but oddly unexciting slab of history about the Pilgrim Fathers’ voyage from Plymouth in 1620 on the Mayflower and their hardships […]
Director Val Guest’s frenetic 1957 British comedy Carry On Admiral [The Ship Was Loaded] is not a bona fide Carry On movie but something pretty similar, based on Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall’s stage farce […]
Director Stuart Rosenberg’s honourable 1976 wartime drama Voyage of the Damned was nominated for three Oscars: Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Lee Grant), Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Steve Shagan […]
The 1953 drama film Titanic fits a fictional family resentment tale into the real-life story of the British passenger liner RMS Titanic going down on 15 April 1912. Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck star as […]
Director Jack Lee’s 1958 movie is a typical Fifties British comedy with its air of being keen and eager to raise laughs coming over as a bit desperate to please. John Gregson stars as the […]