Ana la del remolcador (1933)
Based on the Saturday Evening Post story
Género : Comedia, Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 26M
Director : Mervyn LeRoy
Sinopsis
La vida de Ana (Marie Dressler), que lleva un remolcador mientras ha de soportar a su marido borracho (Wallace Beery).
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
James McKay, un capitán naval retirado, llega, desde el Este, a las vastas llanuras de Texas para casarse con Pat Terrill, la hija de un rico ganadero. El choque entre McKay, hombre pacífico y educado, y los violentos y toscos rancheros es inevitable. No sólo tendrá que enfrentarse con el capataz Steve Leech, sino que, incluso su novia se sentirá decepcionada por su comportamiento. Mientras tanto, el padre de Pat y el clan de los Hannassey luchan encarnizadamente por el control del agua para abrevar el ganado.
Ahti Ikonen is a reliable captain at the height of his career. He is in command of the 35,000-ton container vessel Brugge, which enters the port of Savannah/United States behind schedule. The loading of the ship commences in haste as the crew, led by the ambitious Romanian officer Katia, works by the piece so that they can sail in time. The Filipino seaman James has an accident during this semi- legal lashing procedure. Ahti has to face the consequences of his orders: In the port of Rotterdam/Netherlands unionized dockworkers exploit the incident and refuse to unload the ship. Standstill. The captain is caught between the frontlines. Ahti is keen to elucidate the accident, but the situation becomes more and more contradictory…
John Moore, a young sea captain has a romance with Kay Wheeler, daughter of a trusted trader, "Pop" Wheeler, on a Pacific island. He also acquire the enmity of "Shanghai" Morgan, a notorious sea captain who shanghais his crew and his women.
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
Cuando es nombrado gobernador de Jamaica en 1674, el famoso pirata sir Henry Morgan pide ayuda a sus antiguos compañeros para limpiar de piratas el mar Caribe. Un clásico del cine de aventuras.
Cappy Ricks, a crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage to discover that his family and his business are in chaos--his daughter is set to marry a nitwit that he can't stand, and his future mother-in-law has taken over everything and is set to merge his business with that of a rival company. Worst of all, though, is that she--in the interests of "progress"--has completely automated his beloved ship, "Electra"!. He sets out to put an end to all this foolishness and comes up with what he thinks is a foolproof plan.
Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on a short story by Joseph Conrad. The second tale, "Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", directed by Bretaigne Windust and starring Robert Preston, is adapted from Stephen Crane's short story.
A cruel sea captain (Charles Middleton) oversees a rough crew.
Estamos en 1939, puerto de Sidney, Australia, instantes antes del comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Carl Ehrlich es el capitán del carguero alemán Ergenstrass, a quien su escasa simpatía por los nazis ha privado de su rango militar, se apuesta con su amigo de la infancia, el comandante Jeff Napier, que es capaz de salir de Sidney burlando el bloqueo. Mientras tanto, el cónsul alemán le exige a Ehrlich que tome como pasajera a Elsa von Schwepp, una aventurera que en esos momentos trabaja para los servicios secretos alemanes, y novia de Napier.
Ralph Rackstraw, a poor seaman, is in love with the captain's daughter, Josephine. But how can he ask her to marry him when she is of a higher social class?
On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder. On the street and being pursued by a Policeman who thinks she is a prostitute, Mary seeks shelter on an old freighter. She is soon discovered by second mate Tommy and they quickly fall in love, but with first mate Groder lurking around will their lives work out in the end?
Four couples spend the weekend at a Bed and Breakfast in the Hamptons run by an eccentric German sea captain and his strange family.
Mickey está realizando el mantenimiento rutinario de su remolcador (con la intervención de un pelícano) cuando recibe una llamada por radio de que hay un barco que se está hundiendo y necesita ayuda. Lamentablemente, la tripulación de Mickey está formada por Donald y Goofy, así que ponerse en marcha para ayudar no es fácil. Goofy tiene que luchar contra la puerta de una caldera para conseguir llenarla de carbón (y cuando lo consigue, la llena en exceso) y Donald se enreda en la maquinaria. Por no hablar de que nadie echa las campanas al vuelo, por lo que arrastran a medio muelle con ellos. La caldera sobrecargada no tarda en explotar.
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Filmed with lush production values and at a leisurely, very British pace, Helen Mirren is riveting as Beatrice-Joanna, a young lass already torn by love and commitment.Beatrice-Joanna (Helen Mirren) is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo (Malcolm Reynolds) but is in love with Alsemero (Brian Cox). She hires her father's manservant, De Flores (Stanley Baker), to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward.The Changeling was an instalment of the BBC's Play of the Month series and is a production for television of a 1622 Jacobean tragedy of the same name, written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
This tale of two tugboats focuses upon the rivalries between two operators competing to win a major shipping contract. Meanwhile a tugboat office secretary and an ex-con who wants to go straight, fall in love. Tugboat Annie is put in charge of a child violinist. When a waterfront fire breaks out, the two warring captains join forces to put it out.
El protagonista, aunque desciende de una antigua familia de navegantes, le tiene pánico al mar; esa es la razón por la que decide transformar el viejo barco que ha heredado en hotel y centro de recreo.
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Landing at a Chinese port, tough sea captain Bucklin and his passengers are threatened by a marauding war lord, who intends to kill the captain and hold the others hostage as part of his campaign of destruction against all white men.
Durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Stella (Loren), una mujer que vive en Londres, lleva una desastrosa vida sentimental. A través de los años la llave de su casa ha pasado de unas manos a otras, pero su actitud con sus amantes ha sido siempre fría y distante. Sin embargo, cuando el capitán canadiense David Ross (Holden) llega a su casa a través de un viejo amigo, dentro de Stella nace un sentimiento nuevo y tan apasionado que llega a prometerle a Ross que él será su último amante. Pero en tiempos de guerra mantener las promesas puede ser muy difícil