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Post by london777 on Jul 30, 2018 18:35:18 GMT
I'm struggling to think of one better than Master & Commander...unless Jaws counts You are going to need a bigger memory. Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) dir: Raoul Walsh starred some damned foreigner as our English hero. And another damned foreigner as his bit of skirt. It caused great offence in England at the time. Do we not have enough dashing heroes and demure English roses of our own? Also the script was a mishmash of various Hornblower novels. The aforementioned James Kenney appears as a (no doubt cowardly) midshipman.
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Post by teleadm on Jul 30, 2018 18:48:33 GMT
Mills at sea in Above us the Waves 1955 Once again Mills but in a lighter movie from 1956
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Post by london777 on Jul 30, 2018 19:01:03 GMT
James Kenney is in this one too. He also appears in: The Gift Horse (1952) dir: Compton Bennett (re-titled Glory at Sea for the US market). The re-titling is a pity, because the original title was poignant. It is the (basically true) story of one of the 50 obsolete WWI destroyers rented out to the UK by the USA when still a neutral country in WWII. After constantly proving not up to the job, the ship was finally utilized as an explosive-packed battering ram against a Nazi submarine pen. The actual ship is used as the film-set. Doctor at Sea (1955) dir: Ralph Thomas (not Dirk Bogarde's finest moment) The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954) dir: Lewis Gilbert. Great cast let down by the screenplay. Did the young actor come from a naval family? No. His father was veteran music-hall comedian Horace Kenney, and James and his brother were my brother's friends at school. I just noticed that Horace also had eleven screen credits, something I had never realized. Sadly, James committed suicide at the relatively young age of 53.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jul 30, 2018 19:06:59 GMT
the bounty! robert bolt wrote the script!
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jul 31, 2018 0:06:47 GMT
The Lost Continent
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Post by london777 on Jul 31, 2018 0:12:04 GMT
All these replies, but no further input from the OP, pimpinainteasy. Bearing in mind some of his earlier posts, do you think he meant to write "Which are the great naughty movies?"
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 31, 2018 0:55:26 GMT
RE: Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) dir: Raoul Walsh starred some damned foreigner as our English hero. And another damned foreigner as his bit of skirt. It caused great offence in England at the time. Do we not have enough dashing heroes and demure English roses of our own?
Good to hear that after 67 years there's no longer any ill will in evidence london777Just be glad that no one figured that "R.N." meant Registered Nurse and transformed it into a hospital based film. Look around and see how many Brits are starring or being featured in American made films and tv lately and even altering their accents for the roles. Things all even out eventually.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jul 31, 2018 2:53:02 GMT
I'm struggling to think of one better than Master & Commander...unless Jaws counts MASTER AND COMMANDER is that good?
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Post by OldAussie on Jul 31, 2018 2:56:45 GMT
I'm struggling to think of one better than Master & Commander...unless Jaws counts MASTER AND COMMANDER is that good? MASTER AND COMMANDER is excellent - definite top 10 nautical movies.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jul 31, 2018 3:12:48 GMT
REAP THE WILD WIND is another one. i watched a terrible print of the movie. from my IMDB review:
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jul 31, 2018 3:13:15 GMT
All these replies, but no further input from the OP, pimpinainteasy. Bearing in mind some of his earlier posts, do you think he meant to write "Which are the great naughty movies?" well, i have been reading a lot of erotic crime fiction of late. so you never know.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jul 31, 2018 15:58:52 GMT
...one more: The whimsical Yellow Submarine featuring the Beatles...
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Post by london777 on Aug 17, 2018 16:44:59 GMT
The Eternal Sea (1955) dir: John H. Auer. Biopic of Admiral John M. Hoskins, starring Sterling Hayden.
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Post by koskiewicz on Aug 18, 2018 14:02:26 GMT
...and "All Is Lost" with Robert Redford
"Flatop" w/Sterling Hayden
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Post by fangirl1975 on Aug 19, 2018 18:28:06 GMT
The Cain Mutiny The Hunt For Red October
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Post by divtal on Aug 20, 2018 19:59:12 GMT
I would add On The Beach, ('59), Nevil Shute's fictional account of a submarine crew setting out, from Australia, to see what ... if anything ... remains around the Pacific Rim, after nuclear holocaust. Not fact-action, or "swashbuckling," but quietly intense.
More "on-board situational," than focused on "nautical," is Mister Roberts ('59).
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Films with nautical themes, that may stop short of being "great," but are great fun:
Captain's Paradise ('53), and All At Sea [AKA: Barnacle Bill] ('57) ... both comedies with Alec Guinness.
Whisky Galore! ('49). An Ealing comedy, said to be adapted from the true story of a ship, bound for Jamaica, that went down in the outer Hebrides in Scotland, with a cargo of whisky.
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 21, 2018 0:40:57 GMT
flabbergasted that THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE has not got a mention yet
and of course Will Hay in WINDBAG THE SAILOR demands inclusion
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 21, 2018 2:26:43 GMT
flabbergasted that THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE has not got a mention yet Gotta leave something for the latecomers to the party !
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Post by koskiewicz on Aug 21, 2018 2:40:23 GMT
"Onionhead"
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 21, 2018 3:06:25 GMT
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