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Fair Wind to Java is a american film of genre Action directed by Joseph Kane released in USA on 28 january 1953 with Fred MacMurray
Fair Wind to Java (1953)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 28 january 1953
Length 1h32
Directed by Joseph Kane
OriginUSA
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Films about volcanoes, Disaster films, American disaster films
Rating58%
Fair Wind to Java is a 1953 American adventure film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Fred MacMurray, Vera Ralston, Robert Douglas and Victor McLaglen. Filmed in Trucolor with special effects by the Lydecker brothers, it was based on the novel by Garland Roark. Its plot concerns an American sea captain who voyages to search for diamonds on a volcanic island but has to contend with mysteries, pirates and an exploding volcano based on the 1883 eruption on the island of Krakatoa.
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In 1883, the Boston, Massachusetts, company that owns the full-rigged sailing ship Gerrymander gives the ship's captain, Captain Boll, six months to show a profit for the company in the Gerrymander 's operations in the Netherlands East Indies. Facing both pirates and a trade exclusion policy that prevents him from carrying goods between ports in the islands, Boll looks for a way for the Gerrymander to make money. In Soerabaja on Java, Boll encounters an Indonesian whose life he once saved. The Indonesian tells Boll that native divers salvaged a fortune in diamonds from the sunken ship Pieterzoon, contrary to legend which says the diamonds were lost. The Indonesian directs Boll to a Chinese junk captain who has cargo that will lead Boll to the diamonds.Actors
Fred MacMurray
(Captain Boll)
Vera Ralston
(Kim Kim)
Robert Douglas
(Saint Ebenezer / Pulo Besar)
Victor McLaglen
(O'Brien)
John Russell
(Flint)
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