Two Years Before the Mast
The world famous novel on the screen at last!
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- Adventure
- Drama
Overview
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).
Keywords
- ship
- sea voyage
- shanghaied
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 22, 1946
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount,Paramount Pictures
- Cast
- Alan Ladd,Darryl Hickman,Ray Collins,Esther Fernández,Theodore Newton,James Burke,Roman Bohnen,Frank Faylen,Albert Dekker,Luis van Rootenand 5 more
- Director
- John Farrow
- Producer
- Buddy G. DeSylva,Seton I. Miller
- Cinematography
- Ernest Laszlo
- Music
- Victor Young
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0039056