Dangerous Voyage [DVD]

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I ask what has made the Passage ‘fashionable’. ‘Google Maps,’ shrugs Oliver. ‘Anyone can plan and dream from their armchair. GPS has fundamentally changed yachting, and EPIRB [emergency position-indicating radiobeacon] means that a rescue party will probably find you – eventually. Navigating the Passage is easier, more accessible and safer than ever, but not cheap.’ While 'Dangerous Crossing' didn't strike me as a great film and could have been better than it was, especially considering that its potential was hardly small in the first place, a lot works in its favour and far outweighs the not so good. And if asked as to whether to recommend 'Dangerous Crossing', my answer would be a solid if not quite enthusiastic yes. There are a lot better films of this type and there are also worse, if this is the sort of film that appeals to you there should be plenty to like even if it doesn't reach masterpiece level. To maintain esprit de corps, Stirling will change crew twice mid-passage, meaning tortuous logistics and costly flights. Crew members include high-latitude sailors, cold-climate specialists, shipwrights, a former submarine commander and a chef. Sara grew up on an island off Donegal. After reading psychology, she did an MA in maritime history, set up a boat-building business with her ex, and then did a course in child psychology, while bringing up five children: Oona, now 33, Harry 31, Esme, 23, Alfie, 15 and Grace, 13. (‘Will produced the last two.’) This was remade in the early 90s as a Lindsay Wagner TV-movie, which was called Treacherous Crossing.)

Needless to say the bookie is willing to overlook the debt for a bit of info on gold cargo deliveries. Watling is less than happy with this idea and tells the gang to get stuffed. He soon changes his mind after a sound beating and being told that the gang has kidnapped his young son.

The story is intriguing and suspenseful generally, the mystery not routine or implausible. Rennie is admirably restrained and sympathetic and Crain does more than credibly and is fully committed in a difficult role of this nature to pull off. The rest of the cast are solid. Dangerous Crossing' has its flaws. The melodrama does get a little much in the latter stages and Crain's character as others have said is pretty one-dimensional and could have done with more subtlety in the writing. Newman (1909-) had a steady Hollywood career being an assistant director on 17 mostly mainstream musicals and dramas whilst in his twenties.

Stirling introduces me to his ‘office’, a Portakabin that feels like an Arctic refuge, filled with fleeced-up Stirling & Son employees warming themselves with tea. One of Integrity’s crew, Col. Kevin ‘Kev’ Oliver, a mountain leader officer in the Royal Marines, turns up looking every inch the trim, chiselled genuine article. His 33 years in the forces include tours in several global hotspots, and in 2009, Oliver and fellow marine Major Tony Lancashire attempted the Northwest Passage in a 17ft open boat, sailing west to east. After Amundsen, the St Roch, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner, achieved the first west-east transit in 1940-42; the first yacht was Williwaw, a 45ft steel vessel skippered by Dutch explorer Willy de Roos, in 1970; the first passenger cruise ship was successful in August 2016. However, according to Oliver, ‘By 2013, only about 100 boats had succeeded.’ There are geopolitical sensitivities too. Canada regards the Passage as its own; the US sees it as an international strait. ‘The US and Canada agree to disagree,’ says Oliver. ‘There is big oil and gas, especially off Alaska. Russia and America are making moves. You might think the locals want to keep it pristine. But oh no! The indigenous populations can get huge rewards from mineral and hydrocarbon rights.’ Erm, there are a few hills south of Resolute,’ says Oliver. ‘The rest is shingle bank and slight undulations. For me, the attraction is spending time in remote places and making an effort to get there. Bear Grylls, a friend whom I hugely respect, has been through the Passage in a speedboat. Where is the fun in that?’ Ofosu's group encounters another stowaway, who had boarded the ship in Cameroon. The men jovially discuss the vocations they intend to pursue in the United States. Later, their water container breaks, forcing them to leave the cargo area to forage for water. They leave evidence of their presence, which the crew discovers. To prevent Vlachos from learning that the stowaway search had failed, the captain has Plesin assemble a small team to conduct a secret search.

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However, it was directing shorts in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series where Newman really cut his teeth in the noir game. Kine Weekly wrote: "Windswept crime melodrama set mainly on the briny.... A slap-up climax makes it watertight. Good British 'programmer'". [4] An A.C.T. (Association of Cinema Technicians) Production, made at Nettlefold Studios. U.K. release through Monarch: July 1954. No U.S. theatrical release, but distributed to TV through Modern Sound Pictures. Australian release through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: 31 October 1955. 5,563 feet. 61 minutes. Censored by 90 seconds in Australia.

In Blokes Up North, the book in which Oliver and Lancashire record their adventure, there is a telling line: ‘Royal Marines do tend to see themselves as somewhat indestructible and it takes a lot to change that mindset and turn down a challenge.’ Personal discipline is essential,’ he adds. ‘If everyone gets on, has fun, we handle the boat well, and we get through, then we win. If we make it to Alaska having fallen out with each other, then we fail. Tired, hungry, frightened, cold or wet, we must be polite, friendly and kind to each other.’Ruth (Jeanne Crain) and John (Carl Betz) board a ship for their honeymoon. However, within 15 minutes of sailing, John has disappeared. Not only has he disappeared but there has never been any trace of him and there are no witnesses that have seen the couple together. The room that they originally booked into is now empty and only Ruth's suitcases seem to be located on board - in a different room! So begins the mystery. The film follows Ruth's attempts to locate her husband while we are introduced to a suspicious cast of characters. No-one believes her story and even the confidante that she finds in Dr Paul Manning (Michael Rennie) has his doubts. She receives a phone call in her cabin from John saying that they are both in danger....... This time, Ms. Crane is a woman who has been married for only a few hours. Her and her new husband are taking an ocean voyage for their honeymoon. But, the husband goes to see the purser, telling his wife that he will meet her in the ships' dining room. Since this is a Carr story the husband, naturally, disappears and most of the rest of the movie finds Ms. Crane trying to convince the ships' crew that her husband did indeed board the ship with her and has vanished. Of course, everyone claims to have not seen her husband board with her and she is thought of as a mental case. But, as the movie unfolds, the ships' doctor, played by Michael Rennie, begins to think that there may be truth to her story. From the start, it's obvious that at least one crew member is part of a nefarious plot and that Ms. Crane is in grave danger. But, which crew member, or members, are part of the plot? The movie is well paced and comes to a satisfying conclusion. After considering, but dismissing, thatching as a career, Stirling turned to boat-building. Learning his craft in Lowestoft, he lived aboard a dinghy. ‘It was the biggest adventure,’ he says. ‘I began to sail around the harbour, which was littered with dead ships like in a Mad Max movie. I was hopeless. But when I got the boat moving, I thought, this is absolutely brilliant.’ Will never thinks about his character,’ says Sara. ‘But when people go to the Arctic, it becomes an obsession. And you have that obsession.’ Monthly Film Bulletin said "Average mystery film which makes use of the latest develoments in popular science to find a new way of disposing of the villains." [5]



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