Ship without a home
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ship without a home |
| Original title | Plymouth Adventure |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1952 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Clarence Brown |
| script | Helen German |
| production | Dore Schary |
| music | Miklós Rózsa |
| camera | William H. Daniels |
| cut | Robert Kern |
| occupation | |
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Ship without a home (original title: Plymouth Adventure ) is an American feature film from 1952 with Spencer Tracy . Directed by Clarence Brown . The script is based on a novel by Ernest Gebler.
action
It tells of the arduous crossing of the Mayflower in 1620 from England to the "New World" in America. Captain Christopher Jones is commissioned to ship a group of Puritan pilgrims from England to America. Little did the settlers know that the heartless captain, who was only interested in profit, was bribed. At the end of an arduous journey full of privation, which barely half of the settlers survive, the captain drops the emaciated and scurvy-ridden settlers ashore - but not at the agreed landing site, but hundreds of miles further north in New England . The settlement of these hitherto worthless tracts of land means a considerable gain in speculation for the owner, the unscrupulous investor Mr. Weston.
But in this undeveloped and deserted area of New England, the settlers who disembark without provisions have little chance of surviving the approaching winter. Your only chance of survival is that Captain Jones stays at anchor with the Mayflower during the winter to protect the settlers until they have built their houses. When the voyage began, Jones was determined to abandon the settlers. In the meantime, however, the spirit that prevails among the Pilgrim Fathers has impressed the sailor and brought him closer to the people. In addition, his heart beats for the pious Dorothy Bradford, wife of the leader of the pilgrims, William Bradford . Dorothy, torn between the two men, ends up killing herself by throwing herself overboard. The pilgrim community assumes an accident. The highlight is the signing of the Mayflower Treaty .
criticism
"Carefully designed, humanly moving and carried by good actors, but without the great line of a rousing historical drama", was the verdict of the lexicon of international film . “The MGM history class is tailored for Spencer Tracy. History as a brilliant Hollywood festival ”, writes cinema.de
Bosley Crowther of the New York Times placed the film in a series of films that provide history with romantic speculation and, in their visual splendor, tend to neglect the people behind the costumes and dialogues.
Awards
The film won an Oscar in 1952 for Best Visual Effects .
Web links
- Ship without a home in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ship without a home in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ship without a home. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ^ Review in the New York Times , November 14, 1952.
- ↑ Awards in the Internet Movie Database