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- Down to the Sea in Ships is a grand sea adventure in the tradition of Captains Courageous, Moby Dick, and Treasure Island, full of great actors playing interesting characters, with decent special effects for it's time, and an intelligent, sometimes profound, script.
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The old captain initially resents Dan, but a disaster at sea unites the feuding sailors. The aging Captain Bering Joy (Lionel Barrymore) hasn't lost a step, but the men who own the ship he...
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- Adventure
- Henry Hathaway
Down to the Sea in Ships is a grand sea adventure in the tradition of Captains Courageous, Moby Dick, and Treasure Island, full of great actors playing interesting characters, with decent special effects for it's time, and an intelligent, sometimes profound, script.
Down to the Sea in Ships: Directed by Henry Hathaway. With Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Dean Stockwell, Cecil Kellaway. Whaling ship captain Bering Joy takes his grandson Jed on a whaling trip to teach him core life values while First Mate Dan Lunceford is tasked with tutoring Jed.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Henry Hathaway
- 1949-04-11
The New York Times February 23, 1949 review by “T. M. P.” praised the film, describing the action with relish and concluding: “Down to the Sea in Ships is a good adventure for man and boy, for it makes some points about character building which can do none of us any harm.”
- Henry Hathaway
- Twentieth Century Fox
- Richard Widmark
- United States
Down to the Sea in Ships is a lengthy saga of early whaling ships and the men who commanded them. It is told with emphasis on character study rather than action.
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On the surface, Down to the Sea in Ships has a lot of good qualities from an exciting local in New England to quality documentary-style footage of whaling to an early performance from Clara Bow in a small role.
