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Down to the Sea in Ships (1922)

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This whaling drama is most famous as the screen debut of Clara Bow (Bow had actually made one previous film, Beyond the Rainbow, but her scenes wound up on the cutting-room floor). Besides that, it is also solid entertainment, offering both the best (documentary-like scenes of a whale being gutted) and the worst (some scenery-devouring histrionics) that silent film had to offer. It's a period piece, taking place in a seaside town of the mid-1800s. Charles Morgan (William Walcott) is a Quaker who

Unrated, 1 hr. 23 min.

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If you like ships, whaling, and romance, you may like this movie. I didn't like how this movie spent so much time on showing you how they caught and cut up the whales and sailed out to catch more, it was like reading Moby Dick, but even duller. The romance part of it was pretty good, though, and Clara Bow is very

May 18, 2011
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