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Down to the Sea in Ships

6.9 120 mins Drama   Adventure   Action   1949
20th Century Fox  
Director(s): Henry Hathaway

During a whaling expedition in the late 1800's, the aging Captain Bering Joy (Lionel Barrymore) and his new first mate, Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark) engage in a battle of wills concerning the education of the captain's struggling grandson.

Casts of Down to the Sea in Ships

Richard Widmark

as Dan Lunceford

Lionel Barrymore

as Bering Joy

Dean Stockwell

as Jed Joy

Cecil Kellaway

as Slush Tubbs

Gene Lockhart

as Andrew L. Bush

Berry Kroeger

as Manchester

John McIntire

as Thatch

Harry Morgan

as Britton

Harry Davenport

as Benjamin Harris

Paul Harvey

as John Briggs

Jay C. Flippen

as Luke Sewell

Robert Adler

as Crew Member (uncredited)

Jimmy Hawkins

as Boy (uncredited)

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