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Edward Huebsch (story)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poem)
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Release Date:
5 February 1948 (USA) more
Tagline:
OUT OF DARK SEAS...DARK DEEDS! OUT OF SOFT ARMS...WILD RAPTURE! (original print ad - all caps)
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John Macready, a seafaring captain, who has been beached for losing his ship, goes into the salvage-from-wrecked-vessels... more | add synopsis
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Willard Parker | ... | John Macready |
| Edgar Buchanan | ... | George Lockhart |
 | Patricia Barry | ... | Deborah Allen (as Patricia White) |
| Holmes Herbert | ... | Pastor West |
| Wilton Graff | ... | Caleb Cross |
| Boyd Davis | ... | Gov. Lincoln |
| Jeff Corey | ... | Joshua Hill |
| Paul Campbell | ... | Ned Jones |
| Paul E. Burns | ... | Rudolph Zeiss |
| Trevor Bardette | ... | William Bliss |
| Herbert Heywood | ... | Alexander Tarn |
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70 min
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USA:Approved (PCA #12752) | Finland:S
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"Suggested" by a story by Edward Huebsch and "based upon the poem by Henry W. Longfellow," screenplay-writer Aubrey Wisberg came up with close to what is the only western set in 1830's New England, including a contrived jail break; law-abiding citizens fighting the forces of evil (vigilantes); gang fights and, even, a cross-country chase on horseback of a stagecoach.
Utilizing Huebsch's suggestion and Longfellow's basis and more than an uncredited little-bit from "Reap the Wild Wind," Wisberg has a seafaring captain, who has been beached for losing his ship, Willard Parker, going into the salvage-from-wrecked-vessels business with lovable old Edgar Buchanan---keep an eye on him---and leading the fight against the erection of a lighthouse that would tend to slow down the salvage business more than somewhat.
Parker's brother dies in a shipwreck, and he begins to suspect that his lovable old partner may be causing the ship wrecks by misdirecting the vessels. (Not unlike unlovable Raymond Massey in "Reap the Wild Wind.") Tain't long ere Parker and Buchanan are on opposite sides.