Ocean Adventure
Adventures on the Ocean. Merchant marines, whalers, fisherman, shipwrecks, freighters, pre-20th century navy, and deep sea divers. No pirates though, I put them on another list.
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- DirectorStuart PatonStarsAllen HolubarDan HanlonEdna PendletonA French professor and his daughter accompany Captain Nemo on an adventure aboard a submarine.
- DirectorEdward SlomanStarsMitchell LewisHelen FergusonNoah BeeryWhen Captain Nathaniel Somers is killed during an attack by thugs, his loyal first mate Pike promises to care for the captain's son Dick. Pike, aware that Dick has squandered his life on having a good time, sequesters the wastrel aboard The Elsinore and sets sail. Mellaire, one of the thugs responsible for the captain's death, is also on board, as is Margaret West, whom all three men love. The crew is a bad lot, and during a heavy storm, Mellaire, with his accomplice, The Rat, start a mutiny. In the battle on deck, Pike fights the rebellious sailors single-handedly until helped by Dick, whose experiences have transformed him into a man. Mellaire and The Rat are washed overboard and Pike, now severely injured, gives both command of the ship and Margaret's hand to Dick.
- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsMarguerite CourtotRaymond McKeeWilliam WalcottStory of the lives of the people in a small Quaker community and the adventures of a whaling ship.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsDorothy DaltonRudolph ValentinoCharles BrinleyA milquetoast young man of society toughens up once he's shanghaied and falls for the captain's tomboy daughter.
- DirectorAllen HolubarStarsDorothy PhillipsRobert EllisWallace BeeryLola, girl captain of a smuggling schooner and the ruler of wild men gives her love to a traitor, and takes it back by taking from him the woman who first won his love.
- DirectorJ.P. McGowanStarsJ.P. McGowanHelen HolmesLeslie CaseyTwo men in love with the same girl race to save her when she is trapped aboard a ship on fire in storm-swept seas.
- DirectorWilliam BowdenDick CruikshanksStarsMolly AdairArthur PuseyDoreen WonforIn the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.
- DirectorDonald CrispBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonKathryn McGuireFrederick VroomTwo spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsRin Tin TinWilliam Collier Jr.Louise FazendaA lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of liquor-smugglers is trying to destroy the lighthouse so they can land their illegal cargo on shore without being spotted.
- DirectorMillard WebbStarsJohn BarrymoreDolores CostelloGeorge O'HaraThis silent movie is based on Melville's classic Moby Dick. Ahab and his brother compete for the affections of minister's daughter Esther. But the great white whale has been eluding the harpooners, bearing many scars of failed attacks. Can our hero Ahab succeed where others have perished?
- DirectorLouis ChaudetStarsGaston GlassAlice CalhounJoseph W. GirardTwo ships are caught in the Arctic ice.
- DirectorRupert JulianStarsWilliam BoydElinor FairFrank Coghlan Jr.What starts as race from China to Boston to earn coveted tea trade contract on the high seas turns into dangerous journey with typhoon, mutiny, and no fresh water.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsRichard BarthelmessBetty CompsonLoretta YoungA sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long afterwards the ship sinks but the pair manage to get into a lifeboat before it goes under. They are later picked up by a passing ship, but it turns out that the crew had just mutinied against their captain and taken over the ship.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsRamon NovarroJoan CrawfordErnest TorrenceConflict ensues when a young man's childhood sweetheart becomes betrothed to his older brother.
- DirectorEwald André DupontStarsFranklin DyallMadeleine CarrollJohn StuartOn its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- DirectorGeorge AbbottStarsRichard ArlenFay WrayEugene PalletteWhen 1 of 2 rivals diving for pearls in the Solomon Islands emerges with his goggles on, natives think he is a sea god. A romance with an endangered heroine and the threat of cannibalism also figure in this exotic adventure.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsMilton SillsJane KeithleyRaymond HackettGeorge, Ruth and Humphrey go for a boat ride with Wolf Larsen.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJohn BarrymoreJoan BennettLloyd HughesIn this extremely loose adaptation of Melville's classic novel, Ahab is revealed initially not as a bitter and vengeful madman, but as a bit of a lovable scamp. Ashore in New Bedford, he meets and falls for Faith Mapple, daughter of the local minister and beloved of Ahab's brother Derek. Faith herself quickly returns Ahab's love, as Derek is drab and ignoble. On his next voyage, however, Ahab loses a leg to the monstrous white whale Moby-Dick. When upon his return to New Bedford he mistakenly believes Faith wants nothing to do with him because of his disfigurement, Ahab returns to sea with only one goal in mind -- to find and kill the great white whale.
- DirectorOtto BrowerStarsWilliam FarnumSally BlaneRex BellA sadistic, evil ship captain lusts after a beautiful young girl he spots in town. It turns out that she's the girlfriend of a young man whose father the captain had blinded and cast adrift on the ocean many years before.
- DirectorRoland WestStarsChester MorrisThelma ToddFred KohlerA stockbroker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsEdward G. RobinsonRichard ArlenZita JohannA tuna fisherman marries a woman who doesn't love him.
- DirectorCharles ChauvelStarsArthur GreenawayMayne LyntonErrol FlynnA former member of the crew of the HMS Bounty recounts the story of the mutiny aboard ship.
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsRalph BellamyFay WrayFrederik VogedingA wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsMarie DresslerWallace BeeryRobert YoungAnnie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together.
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsEdmund LoweVictor McLaglenSally BlaneTwo deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at the same time, even the bottom of the ocean. All day long they fight to salvage sunken gold at forty fathoms deep in the ocean, and all night long they fight over dames. This situation continues even when they both go to work for Helen Young, the owner of a tug-boat and a salvage business.