Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
The world famous novel on the screen at last!
Gênero : Drama, Aventura
Runtime : 1H 38M
Director : John Farrow
Sinopse
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).
A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.
Christopher Jones é o turrão, tenaz capitão cujo objetivo é levar um punhado de calvinistas de Plymouth, na Inglaterra, até as terras da América, do outro lado do Atlântico. Entre perigos variados, tempestades e diversos obstáculos, nasce um romance entre John Alden e Priscilla Mullins. Outra passageira importante é Dorothy Bradford, a noiva do futuro governador William Bradford. O capitão se apaixona por ela, que não lhe é indiferente.
A company is studying the possibility to open a spa hotel named after a mythical island, Ieodo. The island is inhabited by the souls of drowned sailors. During a study trip to the location of the hotel lost a journalist under mysterious circumstances. One of the contractors go to Ieodo's neighboring island, populated by widows of the dead sailors, to unravel the disappearance.
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile Ezra’s conniving wife Christine and daughter Lavinia vie for the love of a handsome captain with a dark secret while well-meaning neighbor Peter sets his sights on Lavinia.
A cowherd with a skull-mounted motorcycle and a university student meet in Dakar; put off by life in Senegal, they plan to make money in Paris.
This is an Australian made-for-television animated film from Burbank Films Australia. The film is an adaptation on Jules Verne's classic French novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Em 1962, Joris Ivens foi convidado ao Chile para dar aulas e fazer filmes. Junto com os alunos fez este curta-metragem. Comparando a prestigiosa história do porto com a atualidade, este é um retrato da cidade construída sobre 42 colinas, com sua riqueza e pobreza, sua vida cotidiana nas ruas.
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
О юных выпускниках мореходного училища и их первом выходе в море. О трудном жизненном экзамене на профессиональную и человеческую прочность, который пришлось выдержать как команде траулера «Кайра», потерпевшего бедствие во время шторма, так и коллективу спасателя «Посейдон» под командованием капитана Чигринова, где проходил свою службу герой фильма Славка Чигринов, сумевший во время опасности проявить находчивость, мужество, отвагу.
No ano de 1850, um menino de 13 anos se torna marinheiro para ajudar sua família financeiramente. No entanto, o navio onde ele trabalha naufraga, e ele vai parar numa ilha onde terá que enfrentar o maldoso pirata Merrick.
Cinderela encontra seu Príncipe Encantado no malfadado Titanic. Junto com o passeio estão um cachorro batendo, outros animais falantes e uma variedade de humanos malucos.
Two childhood friends, Joshua and Flint, are adrift in boredom in their area of Sainte-Rose, Guadeloupe. They're involved in petty theft and ordinary System D, until the arrival of Marcus. Caught in a spiral, the difficult choices has to be done...
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.
Roddy St. James, o mimado ratinho de estimação, acha que já chegou lá... até que entra literalmente pelo cano e vai parar num submundo de rãs ninjas, ratos-capangas e lesmas cantoras. Esta surpreendente a criativa aventura cômica é uma enxurrada de diversão tanto para crianças quanto para adultos.
O marinheiro Roger Byam (Franchot Tone) acompanha o capitão Bligh (Charles Laughton) e Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) em uma viagem de navio ao Taiti. Bligh mostra ser um verdadeiro tirano e, depois de seis prazeirosos meses no Taiti, Christian lidera um motim entre a equipe para voltarem à casa.
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl.
A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
