Category: Snugberth Cinema
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The Riddle of the Sands
1979 Dir: Tony Maylam 102 mins Erskine Childers’ classic novel hardly needs recommendation to Classic Sailors. This film version was made at the height of the 1970s vogue for elegant, accurate, authentically British adaptations of… […]
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Deep Water
2006 Dir: Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell 93mins Documentary In a year when there have been two movies made about Donald Crowhurst and his ill-fated quest to win the Golden Globe Race in 1968, it’s salutory… […]
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Shackleton’s Captain
2012 Dir: Leanne Pooley 85 mins The story of Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 bid to cross Antarctic is one of the most extreme survival epics of the 20th century. All the more so because Shackleton took… […]
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Blackbeard’s Ghost
1968 Dir: Robert Stevenson Walt Disney 107 mins Talk like a Pirate Day is on September 19 and, if you’ve any inclination to pull off more than a few “aarrs” or a “Jim-m’-lad” or two,… […]
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Down to the Sea in Ships – Reviewed
1949, Dir Henry Hathaway, B&W, 20th Century Fox, PG, 120mins The character development in this classic New Bedford whaling tale makes you realise how much of modern cinema is rubbish. Its three central actors visibly… […]
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Captains Courageous
1937, Dir Victor Fleming, B&W, MGM, DVD, U, 112mins It’s not just the star-studded cast that brings this movie to life – much of the footage takes place aboard real working Grand Banks schooners of… […]
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All Is Lost
2013 Dir: JC Chandor 106 mins This is a contentious review because many sailors just hate this film. It has a cast, of one – Robert Redford, who has about one main word of dialogue… […]
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Knife in the Water
1962, Dir Roman Polanski, B&W, Anchor Bay, DVD, PG, 90 mins This black and white film from behind the iron curtain in 1962 is quite a revelation. Like: they had yachts in Communist states? Who… […]
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