We learn too of Gary Cooper’s questionable record in the merchant marine, which ultimately discredits most of his testimony. The screenplay by Eric Ambler was based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA. Perhaps an okay decision. His two friends are reluctant to actually kill, but Higgins wounds Sands with the harpoon.

A nother film Hitchcock might have done – and actually was intended for him. Climbing on board (imagine the salvage on it!)

Janet, who suspects the owner's party, tells Patch that Higgins will be on board when the ship floats, and Patch realizes that in its weakened condition it will be easy for one man to sink it in deep water, so that it will never be known that the engines are missing. On the less-sensationalized end, an investigation chronicled in the 2007 documentary “The True Story of the Mary Celeste” was able to offer no definite conclusion, but did suggest a scenario … We've got you covered with the buzziest new releases of the day. Who is that man? Show John Sands and his partner, on their sailboat near the Channel Islands, are nearly run over by a tramp freighter and soon encounter it drifting with no one aboard but a mysterious and disturbed man, Gideon Patch, who claims to be its captain. US and Canada figures at "Rental Potentials of 1960", Patrick McGilligan, Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (New York: HarperCollins, 2003), pg.

I don't know as I'd actively go out and seek to read any more of this author's work, but this is compelling stuff and I binge-read it in 2 hours on a train to London. And this film does have some special effects old C.B. Who is that man?


New evidence helps solve the mystery of the sea's most famous "ghost ship."

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Finally off the ship, now they are in a courtroom to determine the causes of all the disasters and deaths on board this jinxed (?)

He's doing this because he suspects skullduggery from the crew and the late captain of the Mary Deare.Americans Cooper and Heston are given good support by a cast of players from the UK such as Emlyn Williams, Michael Redgrave, Alexander Knox, and Mary Ure. 0000004656 00000 n The Wreck of the Mary Deare This was supposed to be an adventure novel slash courtroom drama, but it lacked adventure and drama. That’s the mystery to be solved. by Alfred A. Knopf.

Higgins has seen Patch's and Sands' underwater lights as they entered through the hole. But still well done, and exceptionally so when considering the era.

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Thoroughly enjoyed this rollicking seafaring adventure. They dismissed the Mary Deare as "a piece of leaking ironmongery taken off the junk heap". A sympathetic retired army scout takes-in a white woman and her half-Apache son, not knowing that the boy's father, a murderous renegade Apache, is after them.

Way back then I read several of his novels and always enjoyed them. A single splashed drop is as big as the bridge! DeMille regretted not having a chance to direct his two favorite leading men in a joint project. The Wreck of the Mary Deare, written in 1956 by Hammond Innes, belongs to the genre of adventure and drama tales that crosses the gap between great literature and pure entertainment. The Yearling (1946) starring Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman and Claude Jarman, Jr. 12 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /O 14 /H [ 1042 198 ] /L 19030 /E 11481 /N 4 /T 18672 >> endobj xref 12 32 0000000016 00000 n The last third, much like the first, has quite a bit of suspense, action, and above average special effects. 0000001042 00000 n 1956 The villain of the piece is second officer Richard Harris in one of his early and acclaimed parts before he became a star.The Minquiries have a lot of legend about them. The two ship's captains begin a friendship that starts with saving the ship they are now trapped on together.

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It tells the story of a very old ship described as "A deathtrap of rattling rivets", which is found adrift at sea by salvageer John Sands.

He smiled at me from the folds of his balaclava as he handed me a mug.

Recommended. (1959).

Michael Redgrave and Richard Harris also come in, the latter in a key role as ship’s officer Higgins. Although there's only a little fire, the whole crew seems to have left the ship.

Patch's story gradually emerges: Higgins and his allies were in a conspiracy with the ship owners in which they offloaded their most important cargo, high-quality American-made airplane engines being sent home from the Korean War, to the other ship at Rangoon, possibly to sell them to the Communist Chinese. 'Nice and fresh up here after the galley,' he said. Then one March night, battered, bruised, and empty, she emerged from severe Biscay gales into the English Channel -- and into the newspaper head. The dark, creepy environment of a deserted cargo ship is all there with every creak of the old wooden hull adding to the tension. I think you really need to be a sailor to appreciate what's going on. A tense, gripping page-turner from the off.

The next day, they find the same freighter, unpowered and drifting.
Mike's cheerful, freckled face appeared abruptly out of the night, hanging disembodied in the light from the binnacle. A salvage captain of another ship comes on board the Mary Deare to see why this seemingly unmanned ship nearly rammed his ship the night before. The True Story of the Mary Celeste. THE WRECK OF THE MARY DEARE is the perfect example of the "art" of movie-making.

Hitchcock had long wanted to work with Cooper, but after developing the script with Ernest Lehman for several weeks, they concluded that it could not be done without turning the film into "a boring courtroom drama". Patch is vindicated, and says to Sands that the only thing he wants is another ship to command.

Although he doesn't understand yet what happened on the Mary Deare, Sands allows Patch to persuade him not to talk about what he saw on-board, and to drag out the official investigation of the incident. However, I soon got into the swing of it and I've got to say, this is highly addictive. Riveting tale of a rusty old ship, captained by a man unwilling to let his command be spoiled by abandonment of his crew during a suspicious fire. After a bit of exploring he decides to claim her for salvage rights, but then uncovers the presence of Captain Patch (Cooper), the lone crew member on board. 0000004677 00000 n Believing in Patch, but wi. Sands can't get back to his tug boat and stays with Patch while Patch grounds the Mary Deare. 0000001220 00000 n

Not true to say the least. 0000010622 00000 n The task of adapting the novel passed to Eric Ambler. John's already looking forward to a large salvage fee, but then he finds First Officer Gideon Patch (Gary Cooper) still on board. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help. I had to look up salty terms like “fo’c’sl” and “binnacle,” and find out what it meant to “lay to” in. Patch's course shows a A college professor begins to suspect that a student's accidental death was tied to his refusal to take part in a traditional "hazing" and was no accident. I picked this up at a used book store, one of those "fill a bag for a buck" deals. Search for "The Wreck of the Mary Deare" on Amazon.com, Title:

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If only they could scale the water! he finds the half-deranged Captain Patch desperately trying to keep the ship afloat, alone. I don't know if I will give this author another try or not. 'Can't be the moon, can it? In the English Channel, John Sands (Charlton Heston), from a small rescue ship, finds the freighter Mary Deare drifting.


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