China Seas (1935), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Love Affair (1939), Pirate Radio (2009), The Finest Hours (1964), A Hijacking (2013), Saps at Sea (1940), Damn the Defiant! (1962) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best At Sea movies.
Storyline: Dashing captain Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) is attempting to lead a more subdued life with a new love interest, aristocrat Sybil Barclay (Rosalind Russell), when his ship is taken over by pirates while sailing the South Pacific. Alan discovers that his predicament involves his volatile former girlfriend, Dolly Portland (Jean Harlow), and her new beau, the shifty Jamesy MacArdle (Wallace Beery). This tense scenario leads to unexpected sparks between Alan and Dolly.
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, romance, action, historical, nautical, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti. Bligh proves to be a brutal tyrant and, after six pleasant months on Tahiti, Christian leads the crew to mutiny on the homeward voyage. Even though Byam takes no part in the mutiny, he must defend himself against charges that he supported Christian.
Plot Keywords: adventure, historical, nautical, drama, classic, oscar, crew ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, after he has had a chance to earn a decent living.—Diana Hamilton <hamilton@gl.umbc.edu>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, classic, black and white, romantic, tragedy, hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This movie is an ensemble comedy in which the romance takes place between the young people of the '60s and pop music. It's about a band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves. The Count, a big, brash, American god of the airwaves; Quentin, the boss of Radio Rock - a pirate radio station in the middle of the North Sea that's populated by an eclectic crew of rock and roll DJs; Gavin, the greatest DJ in Britain who has just returned from his drug tour of America to reclaim his rightful position; Dave, an ironic, intelligent and cruelly funny co-broadcaster; and a fearsome British government official out for blood against the drug takers and lawbreakers of a once-great nation.
Plot Keywords: music, comedy, history, uk, 1960s, rebellion, rock ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles with voice-overs by the listed actors for the recreated scenes.—John F. MacEachern <JohnFMAC@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: adventure, disaster, history, drama, rescue, true story, shipwreck ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The cargo ship MV Rozen is heading for harbor when it is hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. Amongst the men on board are the ship's cook Mikkel and the engineer Jan, who along with the rest of the seamen are taken hostage in a cynical game of life and death. With the demand for a ransom of millions of dollars a psychological drama unfolds between the CEO of the shipping company and the Somali pirates.—Production
Plot Keywords: hostage, tension, psychological warfare, crisis, crew, survival, based on true events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After working in the noisy horn factory, just the sound of one drives Oliver into a violent fit. Dr. Finlayson prescribes a long, restful sea voyage, so Stan and Oliver rent a boat and set sail, unaware that escaped killer Nick Grainger has stowed away onboard. To disable the crook, the boys prepare him a meal using string for spaghetti, sponges for meatballs and soap for cheese. But Grainger discovers their plan and decides to make them eat the stuff themselves.—Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, short film, black and white, classic, hilarious, slapstick, farce ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: H.M.S. Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer Lieutenant Scott-Padget (Sir Dirk Bogarde) makes this difficult, and when Captain Crawford (Sir Alec Guinness) is disabled, the chance for violence increases.—Cleo <frede005@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Plot Keywords: historical, war, british, leadership, conflict, at sea, loyalty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ben Randall is a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. When his crew is killed in an accident and his marriage ends, his commander tells him he wants Randall to go to the US Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer "A" School to train other rescue swimmers. He encounters a guy named Jake who's a little cocky because he was once a swim champion. So Ben puts him through the wringer to see if he can handle it.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, drama, rescue, heroism, survival, training ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the English Channel, John Sands (Charlton Heston), from a small rescue ship, finds the freighter Mary Deare drifting. Although there's only a little fire, the whole crew seems to have left the ship. John's already looking forward to a large salvage fee, but then he finds First Officer Gideon Patch (Gary Cooper) still on board. Sands can't get back to his tug boat and stays with Patch while Patch grounds the Mary Deare. Although he doesn't understand yet what happened on the Mary Deare, Sands allows Patch to persuade him not to talk about what he saw on-board, and to drag out the official investigation of the incident.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: adventure, mystery, drama, shipwreck, courtroom, investigation, conspiracy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cliff Henderson and his family are traveling aboard the SS Claridon en route to Japan. The Claridon is an old ship, on its last voyage before heading to the scrap heap. An explosion in the engine room weakens the hull and the ship is now taking on more water than the bilge pumps can deal with. The Captain seems to have difficulty accepting that his ship will sink. Henderson's wife Laurie is severely injured and trapped under a fallen beam. While the men in the engine room work frantically to shore up the hull, Henderson tries to free his wife from the wreckage with the help of one of the crew, Hank Lawson.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: disaster, shipwreck, survival, at sea, rescue, family, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: What do you do when you are an effervescent teen called Polly and you have a dad who is the skipper of a luxury liner? You ask him to take you on a cruise to Rio of course. What if Captain Bradford refuses and wants you to stay in your boring boarding-school? You stow away, it goes without saying. What if you want to become a singer? Well, you try to convince an operatic star on board of your singing skills. What if Daddy objects to realizing that her daughter's new friend Laura has a crush on him? Just play Cupid for him.Don't you worry, all will end well!—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: classic film, musical, romance, comedy, song and dance, love, nautical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.—Mike Rogers <MICHAELPEM@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, misunderstanding, adventure, romantic comedy, 1940s, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A quartet of international crooks (Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello) are stranded in Italy whilst their steamer is being repaired. With them are the an English couple, the Dannreuthers. The 6 are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but all is not as it seems. They are joined by others who apparently have similar designs.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: adventure, comedy, crime, black comedy, drama, mystery, thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Navy engineer, returning to the U.S. with his wife from a conference, finds himself pursued by Nazi agents, who are out to kill him. Without a word to his wife, he flees the hotel the couple is staying in and boards a ship, only to find, after the ship sails, that the agents have followed him.—Albert Sanchez Moreno <a.moreno@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: suspense, thriller, film noir, espionage, war, drama, adventure ...
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