Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Movie review - "Sea of Lost Ships" (1953) **

Republic Films borrowed John Derek from Columbia to star in the sort of services movie he made for Harry Cohn - and also Republic, in Thunderbirds. It's about duty and service and family members who die, and two friends are in love with the same gal.

Barton MacLane pops up at the top to play Derek's dad and die, Richard Jaekel is the guy he has to compete with over Wanda Hendrix, Walter Brennan is a bosun.

There's stock footage of planes crashing and ice bergs but it's dull. Really dull. I struggled to finish this.

Some fun in Hendrix assuming she and Derek are on from the get go. Those scenes have some life.

Derek and Jaekel are dull.

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