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- The new film “The Finest Hours" is closely based on a real-life rescue that took place at sea in February 1952. During a storm at least as extreme as the nor’easter immortalized in “The Perfect Storm” (2000), two oil tankers broke apart off the coast of Cape Cod.
www.dispatch.com/story/entertainment/movies/2016/01/28/the-real-story-behind-finest/23697741007/The real story behind 'Finest Hours' - The Columbus Dispatch
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Feb 6, 2016 · The Finest Hours true story reveals that a 300-pound man named George "Tiny" Myers was the last survivor to be rescued from the SS Pendleton, aside from its de facto captain, Raymond L. Sybert.
What "The Finest Hours" gets right and wrong about the 1952 rescue attempt of the Pendleton oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass.
Feb 13, 2016 · It was the winter of 1952 and a hurricane-force storm was barreling toward New England. Off the south coast of Cape Cod, the oil tanker SS Fort Mercer split in two, so the...
Feb 18, 2016 · On the night of February 18, a ferocious northeast storm slammed into the hulls of two tankers off the coast of Chatham. Both Second World War-era ships had a fatal flaw in their design. Their...
Jan 28, 2016 · The new film “The Finest Hours" is closely based on a real-life rescue that took place at sea in February 1952. During a storm at least as extreme as the nor’easter immortalized in “The Perfect...
Jan 29, 2016 · The Finest Hours: Directed by Craig Gillespie. With Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana. The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Jan 29, 2016 · With some exceptions for the sake of dramatic tension and concise storytelling, the script largely sticks to its source material, Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman’s 2010 book The Finest Hours:...
