In World War 2 four American sailors are marooned in the Philippines and encounter an old vessel captained by Commander Finchhaven, apparently a relic from WW1. They help him get his engine ... Read allIn World War 2 four American sailors are marooned in the Philippines and encounter an old vessel captained by Commander Finchhaven, apparently a relic from WW1. They help him get his engine going and ask him for a passage to Australia.In World War 2 four American sailors are marooned in the Philippines and encounter an old vessel captained by Commander Finchhaven, apparently a relic from WW1. They help him get his engine going and ask him for a passage to Australia.
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Storyline
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- TriviaThe Narrator throughout the film is Dick Wesson (not the actor Dick Wesson). He is best known as the announcer for The Magical World of Disney (1954) and The Wonderful World of Disney from 1954-79, as well as many Quinn Martin series. Dick was also the Narrator for Disneyland's extinct attraction, America the Beautiful in Circarama.
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Jennifer Winslow: [Pointing to something in the water beyond the ship] I wonder what that is?
Lt. Morton Krim: [Excitedly] What? What? Where?
Jennifer Winslow: There, floating...
Lt. Morton Krim: Oh, that's, uh, that's just some flotsam, or jetsam. Whatever the difference is.
Jennifer Winslow: Well, flotsam is something from a shipwreck, and jetsam is something thrown overboard in order to lighten the ship.
Lt. Morton Krim: Oh... I guess that makes me flotsam, then.
Jennifer Winslow: And apparently my brother considers me jetsam.
Lt. Morton Krim: That must've been some kind of mistake.
Jennifer Winslow: Oh, Johnny and I were never exactly close. When I was nine, he tried to sell me to a steamer captain. I guess it comes from living in the islands.
- ConnectionsEdited from Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- SoundtracksMy Gallant Crew
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Music by Arthur Sullivan (uncredited)
Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert (uncredited)
[Played over sinking ship montage]
This is how I came to see "The Extraordinary Seaman" in a double-bill with "Krakatoa East of Java" in Lancaster, California in 1969 when I was 13 years old. This has to rank as one of the most awful pairings of movies of all time.
It's funny, because for all that I can recall this movie as being incomprehensible, boring to the point of inducing numbness, and funny only in unintentional ways, Alan Alda stood out in it as the only bearable element. (I know Faye Dunaway and Mickey Rooney are credited in the movie, but I cannot for the life of me remember anything about what they did, which is probably a good thing.) This is not to say that his performance was good. It wasn't, that was impossible, this movie was so bad. This movie's most redeeming feature was that it inspired practically the whole theater to throw popcorn at the screen and to add an audience soundtrack of groans and hisses and boos and hoots, and that was fun.
What it left me with is an indelible memory of what a backwater Lancaster, California was in the days before the Antelope Valley Freeway was built: we were the kind of small town where bad films were sent to eke out a little revenue for the people involved. I think about that every time I see some direct-to-video movie in the rack at the supermarket check-out stand.
And I'm devoutly thankful for all the options we have now to avoid seeing movies like "The Extraordinary Seaman."
- Momcat_of_Lomita
- Feb 22, 2011
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- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1