"The Cruel Sea"
(Does anyone else forget that HMS Compass Rose departs in the middle of
the movie?)
"Pandora And The Flying Dutchman"
(Don't ask, I just like James Mason and Ava Gardner but there is sailing
too!)
"20,000 Leagues Under The Sea"
(Submarines and the James Mason thing again..)
"On The Beach"
(Powerful movie, views like a great morality play. Let it soak in and
it hits you like a ton of bricks.)
"The Wreck Of The Mary Deare"
(Hard to find, book was much better.)
"McHales Navy Joins The Air Force"
(This one holds a special place, as it was a movie my father and I
watched often together, sharing and laughing.)
"The Wackiest Ship In The Army"
(They can't all be serious movies, right?)
"Operation Petticoat"
(See above.)
"Bear Island"
(The U-Boat angle is neat.)
"Das Boot"
(Speaks for itself.)
"Hell In The Pacific"
(About as intense as it gets.)
"The Last Flight Of Noah's Ark"
(You've got B-29s, you've got sailing, you've got a B-29 sailing!)
"Mister Roberts"
(Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, James Cagney...what else is there to say?)
"African Queen"
(Bogart and Hepburn, nothing to add here either.)
"Assault On A Queen"
(Hey, I like REAL ocean liners and Sinatra and again, those U-Boats!)
"Islands In The Stream"
(George C. Scott, and islands.. cool!)
"PT 109"
(Who here can honestly say they don't LOVE the sound of those V-12s
burbling away?)
"The Long Ships"
(Hey, can't have a list without Vikings in there too, a nod to my
heritage.)
"Moby Dick"
(I liked both, but particularly liked Patrick Stewart's interpretation
of Ahab as a man who recognized the bleeding away
of his own humanity, and yet was powerless to prevent it; very
gripping.)
"Waterworld"
(Just plain spectacular multihull shots..)
"Wind"
(Gotta love the coordinated deck-drum dancing with the "whomper" sail!)
"Hunt For Red October"
(Sean Connery is impeccable; notice how you buy into him being Russian
despite the Scottish accent?)
"Titanic"
(You either loved or hated it; I found it to be quite a stirring movie.
However, it played out thematically in too similar a manner to "A Night
To Remember", which in some respects was better done.)
"Summer Rental"
(John Candy as skipper; flies his pants for extra speed downwind - gotta
love it!)
I could go on and on...
-- "Sea" ya!--Lars S. Mulford, President East Coast Potter Association (ECPA) Come visit us at http://members.tripod.com/~SpeedSailor s/v Always P15 #2125, lateen rig, sailing greater Chesapeake region "Forgive, and live. Life is worth the challenge of living." --LSSM "Love is good; Love hurts; Love sustains; Love remains." --LSSM