Three favorite seafaring movies

If river navigation is also worth it, I would say Fitzcarraldo. A cult film.
 
My wife just reminded me of a movie that must be added here: The Old Man and the Sea (1958). Based on Hemingway's book and featuring Spencer Tracy's acting. Tracy also shows up in an earlier post for Captains Courageous. Note the sprit rig on the old man's boat; very similar to the rig on my Sea Bright Skiff. fair winds!
 
"Captain Horatio Hornblower" with Gregory Peck- All time No. 1....he was cooler than James Bond!.....& Virginia Mayo was great eye candy!
"Master & Commander", in a tie!
"Captain Blood", with Errol Flynn
Rick1011
 
Tora, Tora, Tora!

A great movie about the intelligence failure and the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Way back in the mid 1960’s as a newly minted Navy Reserve Ensign beginning four years of active duty, my office was in the “N” Building behind “Main Navy” in Washington DC. Main Navy was built as a temporary building during World War I. It was on Constitution Avenue and Eighteenth Street, NW, not far from the present Vietnam War memorial. Entrance to N building was gained through Main Navy by an elevated passageway.

One morning, arriving for work, there was a lot of activity outside Main Navy; cameras; etc. They were filming a scene for Tora, Tora, Tora. Watching the movie, sure enough, there’s the building, but if you blink you’ll miss it.

Roger
 
1951 Raoul Walsh's "Captain Horacio Hornblower" and "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962 edition, with Marlon Brando as Fletcher Christian).
 
Alan Smith said:

THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE (Full Movie)AN ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING EPIC MOVIE ABOUT THE FIRST NAVAL SEA BATTLE OF WORLD WAR TWO IN 1939 IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC WITH THE GERMAN HEAVY CRUISER ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE ENGAGING BRITISH ROYAL NAVY LIGHT CRUISERS HMS AJAX AND HMS ACHILLIES AND HEAVY CRUISER HMS EXETER THE INTERNATIONAL TENSIONS ARE ACUTE (sorry about the capitals - I copied the blurb, this is a Poell and Pressburger movie starring HMS Sheffield, INS Dehli (Formerly HMS Ajax) HMS Cumberland, the US Cruiser 'Salem; as the Graf Spee and more. The bunker fuel bill alone must have hit a million.
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Yeah, great movie! What I've been loving most is citizens of Buenos Aires getting ready to enjoy the sport consisting in a real sea battle. Pretty weird!
 
IMHO, the movies made in the late ‘50’s through the ‘60’s are the best. For WWII Naval movies real ships were still available and sometimes the Navy made them available for filming. The producers were also built replica vessels as needed; the 1962 version of Mutiny on the Bounty is an example of this. Although there are good later movies like Midway, the ships by necessity more modern day. And many of the most recent substitute computer simulations for the real thing. A notable exception is The Hunt for Red October; modern day vessels starring in a film about the modern day navy.

Roger
 
Watched Gregory Peck as Ahab in the movie Moby Dick (1956) last night. It had been many years since I last watched it and likely the last time I will watch it. I understand it was legal for many, many years and it added realism for the movie but found it sad as they were actually killing the whales. I did some digging and they filmed professional whalers from the Azores killing these magnificent giants. Thankfully whaling was banned there in 1984 and the last known kill was 1987, so someone finally got the message.
Allan
 
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Q Ships (1928 silent film) Now if only I could find some good plans, I´d just HAVE to build a model for certain!
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
We Dive At Dawn
The Key (Trevor Howard and William Holden -great WWII sea going tug boat scenes)
In which We Serve
Run Silent Run Deep
Destination Tokyo
Submarine Command
Operation Petticoat (corny as a heck though)
The Eternal Sea
The Gallant Hours
The Silent Enemy 1958
In The Wake of the Bounty (1933 Errol Flynn - may be hard to find)
They Were Expendable (a bit too much ham bone John Ford corn in places but great PT boat scenes. Plus Robert Montgomery WAS a real life PT boat commander)

I'll scrounge around through our dvds in the next few days.. likely a few more lurking about.
 
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