De wat naïeve zeekapitein James McKay komt in een vete om waterrechten terecht tussen de rancherfamilies Terrill en Hannassey, wanneer hij op de ranch gaat logeren van zijn geliefde Patricia Terrill, die hij in het Oosten heeft leren kennen.
In de 17e eeuw verleent de Britse koning gratie aan elke piraat die naar de koloniën verhuist. Een kapitein verzet zich en wordt vervolgd.
Een jonge man monstert aan op een koopvaardijschip. Op open zee beginnen de problemen. Door de lange periode van isolatie blijkt de kapitein namelijk krankzinnig te worden.
Een Duitse kapitein ligt in een Australische haven als hij via de radio verneemt dat in zijn thuisland Adolf Hitlers macht groeit. De oorlogsdreiging doet hem besluiten onmiddellijk koers te zetten naar Yokohama. Aan boord is ook een dame wier verleden hij goed kent, die aan boord gebracht werd door een bevriend zeevaarder die met haar wilde trouwen. Na enige tijd blijken zowel Duitse als Britse schepen de achtervolging ingezet te hebben.
A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom Submarine U-67."
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their tugboat business.
The thorny relationship between a woman and her retired father worsens after he becomes romantically involved with the housekeeper she hires for him.
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Filmed with lush production values and at a leisurely, very British pace, Helen Mirren is riveting as Beatrice-Joanna, a young lass already torn by love and commitment.Beatrice-Joanna (Helen Mirren) is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo (Malcolm Reynolds) but is in love with Alsemero (Brian Cox). She hires her father's manservant, De Flores (Stanley Baker), to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward.The Changeling was an instalment of the BBC's Play of the Month series and is a production for television of a 1622 Jacobean tragedy of the same name, written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on a short story by Joseph Conrad. The second tale, "Bride Comes to Yellow Sky", directed by Bretaigne Windust and starring Robert Preston, is adapted from Stephen Crane's short story.
Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.
On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder. On the street and being pursued by a Policeman who thinks she is a prostitute, Mary seeks shelter on an old freighter. She is soon discovered by second mate Tommy and they quickly fall in love, but with first mate Groder lurking around will their lives work out in the end?
It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncle's fortune and marry a young woman from a good family. After an incident where she kills a man, she is saved from the gallows by Fabian, a ship's captain, who has personal reasons for antagonizing the Brissacs. He takes care of her and falls in love with her, but doesn't tell her. She, in turn, takes the opportunity to return to her lover Brissac's arms, forcing him to marry her after seeing him murder his uncle.
Cappy Ricks, a crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage to discover that his family and his business are in chaos--his daughter is set to marry a nitwit that he can't stand, and his future mother-in-law has taken over everything and is set to merge his business with that of a rival company. Worst of all, though, is that she--in the interests of "progress"--has completely automated his beloved ship, "Electra"!. He sets out to put an end to all this foolishness and comes up with what he thinks is a foolproof plan.
Four couples spend the weekend at a Bed and Breakfast in the Hamptons run by an eccentric German sea captain and his strange family.
Landing at a Chinese port, tough sea captain Bucklin and his passengers are threatened by a marauding war lord, who intends to kill the captain and hold the others hostage as part of his campaign of destruction against all white men.
De Hamburgse scheepskapitein Markus Jolly wordt ingehuurd om een vaccin naar een Latijns-Amerikaanse haven te vervoeren, maar wanneer de kostbare lading wordt gestolen door gangsters, wordt hij er valselijk van beschuldigd de diefstal te hebben beraamd.
Ahti Ikonen is a reliable captain at the height of his career. He is in command of the 35,000-ton container vessel Brugge, which enters the port of Savannah/United States behind schedule. The loading of the ship commences in haste as the crew, led by the ambitious Romanian officer Katia, works by the piece so that they can sail in time. The Filipino seaman James has an accident during this semi- legal lashing procedure. Ahti has to face the consequences of his orders: In the port of Rotterdam/Netherlands unionized dockworkers exploit the incident and refuse to unload the ship. Standstill. The captain is caught between the frontlines. Ahti is keen to elucidate the accident, but the situation becomes more and more contradictory…