Two Years Before the Mast ( 2 Years Before the Mast )

Two Years Before the Mast (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: 2 Years Before the Mast
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
Italian ( Mono )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
97 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Posters
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1946 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
John Farrow

Written By:
Seton I. Miller
George Bruce

Actors:
Alan Ladd ..... Charles Stewart
Brian Donlevy ..... Richard Henry Dana
William Bendix ..... First Mate Amazeen
Barry Fitzgerald ..... Terence O'Feenaghty
Howard Da Silva ..... Captain Francis A. Thompson
Esther Fernández ..... Maria Dominguez
Albert Dekker ..... Brown
Luis Van Rooten ..... 2nd Mate Foster
Darryl Hickman ..... Sam Hooper
Roman Bohnen ..... Macklin
Ray Collins ..... Gordon Stewart
Theodore Newton ..... Hayes
Tom Powers ..... Bellamer
James Burke ..... Carrick
Frank Faylen ..... Hansen

Synopsis:

Charles Stewart, the "Pilgrim" owner's playboy son, finds himself shanghaied on his father's ship commanded by cruel Captain Thompson. When scurvy breaks out he leads a mutiny and is slapped in irons. Floggings and torture abound.

Charles the dissolute, hedonistic son of wealthy shipping owner, Gordon Stewart, is pressganged into service aboard one of his father's ships, 'The Pilgrim', after a fight in a bar. Proud and aloof initially, Charles is soon ostracized by his fellow shipmates. However, as the voyage continues Charles experiences the desperate privations suffered by the crew and witnesses the wanton brutality handed down by the Draconian ship's master Captain Francis Thompson, he starts to identify with the crew. Befriended by the novelist Richard Henry Dana, working undercover to discover what happened to his brother on the Pilgrim's previous voyage, Charles eventually becomes part of the crew. Together the two men keep the crew in line in the face of ever decreasing rations, an outbreak of Scurvy and vicious punishments exacted with great zeal by the ship's first mate, Amazeen. Starving and pushed well beyond breaking point, the crew mutinies and kills the Captain. Returning to port, armed with Dana's novel, fearing they could be hanged the crew throw themselves on the mercy of the U.S. Senate to highlight the plight of sailors on merchant ships at sea in the hope of effecting changes.

The playboy son of a wealthy shipping magnate discovers at first hand the desperate privations suffered by the crew of one of his fathers ships when he is unwillingly pressganged aboard.

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