Fair Wind to Java (1953)
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Republic Pictures' notion of an "epic", Fair Wind to Java manages to pack in enough entertainment value to send the adventure fans home happy. Tough South Seas skipper Fred MacMurray goes hunting for pearls on a forbidden Javanese island. Native girl Vera Ralston (never mind her Czech accent) falls in love with MacMurray and defies local laws to help him. She is punished by the island rulers, compelling MacMurray to spirit both Vera and the pearls off the island. As they make a last desperate attempt to escape, a lava-spewing volcano threatens to destroy the island. While the shipboard scenes in Fair Wind to Java are as shoddy as a high school production of Pirates of Penzance, the climactic volcanic eruption is masterfully staged by miniature experts Howard Lydecker and Theodore Lydecker. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Fred MacMurray - Capt. Boll
- Robert Douglas - St. Ebenezer/Pulo Besar
- John Russell - Flint
- Claude Jarman, Jr. - Chess
- Howard Petrie - Reeder
- William Murphy - Ahab
- Philip Ahn - Gusti
- Virginia Brissac - Bintang
- Richard Reeves - Hoppo Two
- Keye Luke - Pidada
- John Halloran - Guard
- Chuck Hayward - Sailor
- Vera Ralston - Kim Kim
- Victor McLaglen - O'Brien
- Buddy Baer - King
- Grant Withers - Jason Blue
- Paul Fix - Wilson
- Sujata - Dancer
- Stephen Bekassy - Lieutenant
- Blackie Whiteford - Sailor
- Vera Miles - Kim Kim
- Howard Chuman - Guard
- Al Kikume - Guard
- Director(s):
- Joseph Kane
- Writer(s):
- Richard Tregaskis
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