The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
During a whaling expedition in the late 1800's, the aging Captain Bering Joy (Lionel Barrymore) and his new first mate, Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark) engage in a battle of wills concerning the education of the captain's struggling grandson.
Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex. When the Essex is attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in November 1820, her crew take to three fragile whalers. Alone in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the men must decide whether to head for the nearest islands - a thousand miles downwind to the west - or set out on an epic journey of almost three thousand miles to reach the South American mainland. Fear of cannibals forces them to choose South America. Almost three months later, the first whaler is rescued by another whaleship. Only three men are still alive. A week later the captain's whaler is also rescued, with just two men aboard. The third whaler is never found. This is a story of human endurance and what men in extremis will do to survive.
A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.
Las aventuras de un chico que naufraga en los mares del sur del Pacífico y que llega a una isla desierta, donde deberá rescatar a sus compañeros de travesía y luchar contra unos piratas que están a la búsqueda de un tesoro.
Director Bernard J. Durning's silent seafaring romantic melodrama