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Desert Sands (1955)

A Foreign Legion captain (Ralph Meeker) lands by helicopter at a besieged fort, where he meets an...

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Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl

Anthony Dexter, who had essayed the title role in the 1951 biopic Valentino, plays a beardless...

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Stealth (2005)

Three naval pilots (Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx) must stop a fighter jet controlled by...

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Carry on England

The long-running series of British "Carry On" comedies was nearing the end of the line when this...

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The Perfect Storm (2000)

At sea in October 1991, the crewmen (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly) of the Andrea...

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In Which We Serve (1942)

The captain (Noel Coward) and crew of a bombed British destroyer press on at Dunkirk and the Battle...

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Black Water

A terrifying tale of survival in the mangrove swamps of Northern Australia

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Battle Taxi (1954)

The captain (Sterling Hayden) of an air-rescue service unit leads his men (Arthur Franz, Marshall...

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Stargate (1994)

A portal takes an Egyptologist (James Spader), a colonel (Kurt Russell) and a team of soldiers to...

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Mister Roberts (1955)

Ensign Pulver (Jack Lemmon) plots cargo officer Mr. Roberts' (Henry Fonda) escape from their...

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Pirates (1986)

Peg-legged Captain Red (Walter Matthau) and his sidekick (Chris Campion) seize a Spanish galleon and...

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To Have and Have Not (1944)

A boat skipper (Humphrey Bogart) flirts with a singer (Lauren Bacall) and fools Nazis on the island...

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Hook (1991)

Aided by Tinker Bell (Julia Roberts), a corporate lawyer (Robin Williams) turns into Peter Pan to...

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Morituri (1965)

An Allied agent (Marlon Brando) tries to disarm scuttling explosives aboard a German captain's (Yul...

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Show Boat (1951)

The captain's daughter (Kathryn Grayson) marries a gambler (Howard Keel) who turns performer on a...

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They Were Expendable (1945)

Heroic PT boat captains (Robert Montgomery, John Wayne) fight Japanese ships in the World War II...

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The Black Watch (1929)

In this early talkie from director John Ford, a Scottish captain and his regiment are sent to India...

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A Man from Wyoming

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What Price Glory?

From the minute it opened on Broadway in 1924, Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson's gritty WWI...

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Richard Bradford

Forceful character actor, latterly with snow-white hair, who made his film debut in 1966 and came to...

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Treasure Island (1972)

Young Jim Hawkins (Kim Burfield) has a map to a pirate's buried treasure, and pirate Long John...

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The Sea Chase (1955)

As World War II begins, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany...

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The Virgin Queen (1955)

Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) loves and loses Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) to a maid of honor (Joan...

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Abandon Ship! (1957)

Short rations from a sunken liner force the officer (Tyrone Power) of a packed lifeboat to sacrifice...

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Dark Tide

While collecting deadly sea snakes for a research company, two deep sea divers are trapped in a web...

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Bitter Victory (1958)

A British captain (Richard Burton) goes on a raid in World War II Libya with a major (Curt Jurgens)...

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Away All Boats (1956)

The story of a U.S. naval ship and its crew in the Pacific, 1943-1945.

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Nemo

Seven year-old Nemo falls asleep in a Manhatten skyscraper and wakes in another dimension....

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Apache Rifles (1964)

A U.S. Cavalry officer (Audie Murphy) falls in love with a part-Indian missionary (Linda Lawson) in...

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Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957)

Ginger Rogers, Dan Dailey's bored housewife, seeks psychiatric help from Dr. David Niven who also...

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Operation Mad Ball (1957)

An Army private (Jack Lemmon) and his buddies try to fraternize with nurses who are off-limits as...

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Carry On, Admiral

The grass is always greener.... In this British comedy, two drunken comrades find out the truth of...

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Sink the Bismarck! (1960)

A British captain (Kenneth More) and his Wren aide (Dana Wynter) lead the 1941 pursuit of the...

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Play Dirty (1967)

A British army captain (Michael Caine) leads ex-convict commandos on a desert mission to blow up a...

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Scent of a Woman (1974)

An army cadet acts as baby-sitter to a mischievous, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to...

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Dear John (1964)

A sailor on a weekend leave arrives in a Swedish sea town, meets a lonely waitress, and they fall in...

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The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)

A wily native interpreter (Marlon Brando) foils an Army captain's (Glenn Ford) attempts to change a...

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Tamango (1959)

A graphic portrayal of the horrors on a slave ship sailing from Africa. The captain takes a black...

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The Gun Runners (1958)

The third and (as of 2005) the last film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short story To Have and...

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H.M.S. Defiant

The 18th-century captain (Alec Guinness) of the H.M.S. Defiant finds the mate (Dirk Bogarde) has...

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Fantasies (1981)

This John Derek opus shows off his latest protegee/wife, Bo Derek. Set on a lush Greek island, the...

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Twilight For the Gods (1958)

Adapted by Ernest Gann from his own novel, Twilight for the Gods bears traces of Gann's earlier The...

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The Saragossa Manuscript (1999)

An officer in the Belgian Royal Guard is sent on a fantastic journey by two beautiful princesses as...

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Battle of the Coral Sea

A Eurasian girl (Gia Scala) helps a U.S. submarine commander (Cliff Robertson) and two others escape...

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Passione d'amore (1981)

A neurotic woman is obsessed with a military officer who is having an affair with a beautiful...

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Hell Below Zero (1954)

The first mate (Alan Ladd) of a whaling ship helps a woman (Joan Tetzel) investigate her father's...

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In Search of the Castaways (1962)

Based on Jules Verne's novel Captain Grant's Children, In Search of the Castaways is a...

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Back to God's Country (1953)

The oft-filmed James Oliver Curwood yarn Back to God's Country is given the Technicolor treatment in...

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Sea Fury

Victor McLaglen made his last film appearance in the British Sea Fury. McLaglen plays the brawny...

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Lotna

Tale follows a an off-white horse which passes through various soldiers' hands in the Polish...