Fair Wind to Java
Fair Wind to Java is a 1953 American adventure film in Trucolor from Republic Pictures, produced and directed by Joseph Kane, that stars Fred MacMurray and Vera Ralston. With special effects by the Lydecker brothers, the film was based on the 1948 novel of the same name by Garland Roark.
Plot
In 1883, the Boston company that owns the merchant sailing ship Gerrymander gives her captain, Captain Boll, six months to show a profit in the Netherlands East Indies. Facing both pirates and a Dutch trade exclusion policy preventing foreigners from carrying goods between ports, Boll looks to make a profit another way. On Java, an Indonesian, whose life Boll once saved, tells Boll that native divers salvaged a fortune in diamonds from the sunken ship Pieterzoon. He sends Boll to a Chinese junk captain with a captive, the woman Kim Kim, a dancer at the sultan's palace before the Chinese enslaved her; she knows the diamonds' location.
More details
| author | Richard Tregaskis |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Indonesia |
| director | Joseph Kane |
| editor | Richard L. Van Enger |
| events | sea piracy seamanship |
| genre | adventure historical |
| keywords | 1883 eruption of krakatoa bounty buy captain chief mate chinese junk claim diamond diver driven insane dutch dutch guilder first mate flagellation follow full-rigged ship guilder hide indonesian its volcano in the early stages of erupting java junk kill krakatoa lash lava longboat lose marine salvage merchant sailing ship native indonesians netherlands netherlands east indies piracy pirate quarter deck sailing ship salvage sea anchor sea captain smoke smuggle sultan sunken ship tsunami underwater diving |
| musicBy | Victor Young |
| producer | Joseph Kane |
| productionCompany | Republic Pictures |
| publisher | Republic Pictures |
| theme | disaster |