Adventures of the Blackgang

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Fire Down Below (Columbia, 1957) Tony and Felix own a tramp...

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Fire Down Below (Columbia, 1957)

Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him. (imdb)

Starring Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Herbert Lom, Bernard Lee, Peter Illing, and Anthony Newley.

Directed by Robert Parrish

Donovan’s Reef (Paramount, 1963) ‘Guns’...

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Donovan’s Reef (Paramount, 1963)

‘Guns’ Donovan prefers carousing with his pals Doc Dedham and ‘Boats’ Gilhooley, until Dedham’s high-society daughter Amelia shows up in their South Seas paradise.

Starring John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Dorothy Lamour, Jack Warden, Cesar Romero, Elizabeth Allen, Dick Foran, Marcel Dalio, Mike Mazurki, Jacqueline Malouf, Cherylene Lee, Jeffrey Byron, Edgar Buchanan, Jon Fong, Cliff Lyons, and Patrick Wayne.

Directed by John Ford

Doctor at Sea (Republic, 1955) Comedy A bachelor doctor goes...

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Doctor at Sea (Republic, 1955) Comedy

A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine. (imdb)

Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot, James Robertson Justice, and Maurice Denham. Directed by Ralph Thomas

The Cruel Sea (Gaumont/Rank, 1953) Belgian movie poster The...

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The Cruel Sea (Gaumont/Rank, 1953) Belgian movie poster

The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers. (imdb)

Starring Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott, John Warner, Stanley Baker, Bruce Seton, Liam Redmond, Virginia McKenna, Moira Lister, June Thorburn, Megs Jenkins

Directed by Charles Frend

Creature from the Black Lagoon (Universal International, 1954)...

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Creature from the Black Lagoon (Universal International, 1954) Lobby Card (11” X 14”) Horror

Starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva, Whit Bissell, Ricou Browning, and Ben Chapman. Directed by Jack Arnold.

The Caine Mutiny (Columbia, 1954) French poster Starring...

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The Caine Mutiny (Columbia, 1954) French poster

Starring Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Robert Francis, May Wynn, Tom Tully, E.G. Marshall, Lee Marvin, Arthur Franz, Warner Anderson, Claude Akins, Katherine Warren, Jerry Paris, Steve Brodie, Herbert Anderson, and James Best.

Directed by Edward Dmytryk

The Beachcomber (1954)Written by: W. Somerset Maugham Mr. Gray...

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The Beachcomber (1954)Written by: W. Somerset Maugham

Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the “sanctimonious, psalm-singing” brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away.

Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.

(imdb)

All at Sea (MGM, 1958) ComedyStarring Alec Guinness, Irene...

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All at Sea (MGM, 1958) Comedy
Starring Alec Guinness, Irene Browne, Maurice Denham, Percy Herbert, Victor Maddern. Directed by Charles Frend.

A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. (imdb)

original title: “Barnacle Bill”

Jack Sparling: Monty Hall of the U.S. Marines #9 Page 30 Pin-Up...

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Jack Sparling: Monty Hall of the U.S. Marines #9 Page 30 Pin-Up Original Art (Toby, 1952)

Jack Sparling (American, 1916-1997): broke into comics with the newspaper strip Hap Hopper, Washington Correspondant, which he drew from1941-43. From 1943-48 he drew the comic strip, Claire Voyant, and also began his comic book career. Over the years, the prolific Sparling worked for nearly every publisher in comics, including Charlton, DC, Dell, Fawcett, Gilberton, Harvey, Marvel, Parents Magazine Press, Atlas-Seaboard, Toby Press, Warren Publishing, Western, and Ziff-Davis. Some of the highlights of his comic book career include his work on the Challengers of the Unknown, Secret Six, Turok, Unknown Soldier, Eclipso, G. I. Joe, and Mighty Samson features. In 1960-72 he returned to syndicated strips with his work on the feature Honor Eden.

Popeye Paint Book (1937)

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Popeye Paint Book (1937)

The Sea Hound(1947) A 15-part series set in the late 1940s that...

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The Sea Hound
(1947)

A 15-part series set in the late 1940s that charts the voyage of a group of pirates searching for buried treasure. Everything goes well until Crabbe emerges to wreck their hopes.

Directed by: Walter B. Eason, Mack V. Wright
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Jimmy Lloyd, Pamela Blake, Ralph Hodges, Bob Barron

The Sea Hound (serial)

Adventures of the Sea Hound was a popular radio show that ran on the Blue Network from 1942 to 1945, Mutual from 1946-47, and ABC in 1948. Between 1942 and 1945, it was produced on behalf of Nelson A. Rockefeller’s Office of Inter-American Affairs (1940-46) and was part of a national program to strengthen inter-American relations.

Broadcast five times a week, the show featured Captain Silver and his sidekick Jerry hunting Nazi spies throughout the hemisphere. Every episode took place in a different Latin American country.

Listeners w ere encouraged to write to NBC to request Captain Silver’s Sea Chart - a colorful map of the Americas that informed on the most important products and carried on its border pictures of outstanding heroes and flags of all the Latin America republics. Some 200,000 of such maps were sent out.

The show spawned a short lived comic book and the 1947 Columbia serial, The Sea Hound, starring Buster Crabbe.

Listen to episodes at The Internet Archive