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Sea of Lost Ships is a 1953 American adventure film directed by Joseph Kane and starring John Derek, Wanda Hendrix and Walter Brennan. It is a tribute to the US Coast Guard.
Sea of Lost Ships: Directed by Joseph Kane. With John Derek, Wanda Hendrix, Walter Brennan, Richard Jaeckel. The son of a deceased Coast Guard hero is raised by a Coast Guard NCO, who also has a son the same age.
Sea of Lost Ships. After heroic Coast Guard Capt. Jack Matthews dies in the line of duty, his son, Grad (John Derek), is adopted by Chief O'Malley (Walter Brennan) and his wife, Nora...
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After Coast Guard captain Jack Matthews, a widower, heroically dies while fighting a ship fire, Chief O'Malley and his wife Nora rear his orphaned son Grad along with their own boy Hap. Several years later the two young men follow in the steps of their fathers and together join the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.
Sea of Lost Ships (1953) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The son of a deceased Coast Guard hero is raised by a Coast Guard NCO, who also has a son the same age. When they get older both are accepted into the Coast Guard Academy, but the hero's son winds up being thrown out, bringing disgrace to his adopted family. Joseph Kane. Director. Steve Fisher.
There are some wonderful scenes shot aboard the USCG Eagle, the Coast Guard's midshipmen's training ship. The ship is gorgeous and incredibly beautiful under full sail-- the movie is worth seeing if no more than for those scenes of her underway.