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1. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
directed by Lewis Milestone
featuring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Richard Haydn
This colorful remake of the 1935 version again concerns the crew and treatment of the HMS Bounty by a cold hearted sadistic captain. Captain Bligh ... More
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2. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
directed by Frank Lloyd
featuring Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Dudley Digges, Herbert Mundin, Donald Crisp, Eddie Quillan
The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the titular 1789 ship mutiny, ... More
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3. Moby Dick (1956)
directed by John Huston
featuring Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Harry Andrews, Orson Welles, Seamus Kelly
Previous film versions of Moby Dick insisted upon including such imbecilities as romantic subplots and happy endings. John Huston's 1956 Moby Dick ... More
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4. Damn the Defiant! (1962)
directed by Lewis Gilbert
featuring Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle, Tom Bell, Maurice Denham, Nigel Stock
Damn the Defiant! is an 18th-century seafaring drama from director Lewis Gilbert. Alec Guinness plays the stern but compassionate captain of a ... More
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5. The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
directed by John Sturges
featuring Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver, Donald Diamond, Don Blackman
Ernest Hemingway's short novel The Old Man and the Sea was probably unfilmable to begin with, but this didn't stop John Sturges from trying to ... More
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6. The Bounty (1984)
directed by Roger Donaldson
featuring Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis
This fourth film dramatization of the 1789 mutiny aboard the H.M.S. Bounty is based not on the familiar Nordhoff and Hall book, but on Richard Hough ... More
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7. Morning Departure (1950)
directed by Roy Ward Baker
featuring John Mills, Helen Cherry, Richard Attenborough, Lana Morris, Nigel Patrick
Morning Departure isn't about a commuter train but instead the story of an imperiled submarine. On a routine postwar mission, the sub strikes a ... More
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8. The Amazing Captain Nemo (1978)
directed by Alex March
featuring Burgess Meredith, Lynda Day George, Mel Ferrer
We'll confess not to having seen The Amazing Captain Nemo, principally because we can't find it anywhere. It's our loss, because it certainly sounds ... More
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9. Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)
directed by Lewis Gilbert
featuring Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Noel Purcell
This curious African Queen derivation stars Curt Jurgens as Mark Conrad, an Austrian exile and Orson Welles as blustery ferry-boat captain Cecil Hart ... More
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10. Moby Dick (1998)
directed by Franc Roddam
featuring Patrick Stewart, Henry Thomas, Ted Levine, Gregory Peck, Piripi Waretini
Director Franc Roddam and co-scripter Anton Diether adapted Herman Melville's 1851 classic for this four-hour TV miniseries sea adventure. Ishmael ... More
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11. The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
directed by Michael Anderson
featuring Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams, Cecil Parker, Richard Harris
Talented special effects and adventure director Michael Anderson (Around the World in 80 Days, 1956) keeps the suspense going in this drama about the ... More
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12. The Ebb Tide (1997)
directed by Nick Renton
featuring Robbie Coltrane, Steven Mackintosh, Chris Barnes
Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of high-seas adventure comes to the screen in this feature film adaptation starring Robbie Coltrane, Steven MacKintosh, ... More
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13. Souls at Sea (1937)
directed by Henry Hathaway
featuring Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Henry Wilcoxon, Harry Carey
Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as Nuggin Taylor, first mate ... More
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14. The Old Man and the Sea (1999)
directed by Alexander Petrov
featuring Gordon Pinsent, Kevin Delaye
Shot in the high-definition giant screen IMAX format, this animated feature is adapted from the classic short novel by Ernest Hemingway. An elderly ... More
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15. Botany Bay (1953)
directed by John Farrow
featuring Alan Ladd, James Mason, Patricia Medina, Cedric Hardwicke, Murray Matheson
Framed for robbery, 18th century medical student Alan Ladd is sentenced to a New South Wales penal colony. En route to the prison, Ladd is tormented ... More
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16. The Old Man and the Sea (1990)
directed by Jud Taylor
featuring Anthony Quinn
This adaptation of Hemingway's classic story adds a few characters but keeps the basic plotline of an old fisherman's greatest battle intact. ~ ... More
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17. Captain Ahab (2007)
directed by Philippe Ramos
featuring Denis Lavant, Virgil Leclaire, Dominique Blanc, Jacques Bonnaffé, Jean-François Stévenin
Writer/director Philippe Ramos ponders the formative years of legendary Herman Melville seaman Captain Ahab in this stylized tale of adventure ... More
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18. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
directed by Peter Weir
featuring Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd, James D'Arcy, Lee Ingleby
Director Peter Weir's first turn behind the camera since 1998's critically acclaimed The Truman Show, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ... More
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19. Lifeboat (1944)
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
featuring Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, John Hodiak, Hume Cronyn, Mary Anderson
Seeking a creative challenge after several years' worth of fairly elaborate melodramas, director Alfred Hitchcock stages all of the action in ... More
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20. Wind (1992)
directed by Carroll Ballard
featuring Matthew Modine, Jennifer Grey, Stellan Skarsgård, Rebecca Miller, Ned Vaughn, Cliff Robertson, Jack Thompson
Wind is set in the world of competitive yacht racing, where a young sailor (Matthew Modine) is intent on winning the America's Cup, as well as ... More
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21. The Way (2011)
directed by Emilio Estevez
featuring Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Deborah Kara Unger, Yorick Van Wageningen, James Nesbitt
A grieving father makes a pilgrimage to the Pyrenees in honor of his late son, and experiences a major epiphany during his journey down the Way of ... More
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22. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
directed by John Huston
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane
John Huston's 1948 treasure-hunt classic begins as drifter Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart), down and out in Tampico, Mexico, impulsively spends his ... More
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23. Cast Away (2000)
directed by Robert Zemeckis
featuring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Chris Noth
An exploration of human survival and the ability of fate to alter even the tidiest of lives with one major event, Cast Away tells the story of Chuck ... More
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24. The Grey (2012)
directed by Joe Carnahan
featuring Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts, Joe Anderson, Nonso Anozie, Ben Bray, James Badge Dale
Liam Neeson stars in producer/director Joe Carnahan's tense adventure thriller about a group of tough-as-nails oil rig workers who must fight for ... More
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25. Watership Down (1978)
directed by Martin Rosen
featuring John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, John Bennett, Simon Cadell
Unique in the annals of animated films, Watership Down is a serious, even grim tale that many will find relentless and depressing and others will ... More
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