Never Sea Land is pleased to present this feature film in its entirety.
While cruising the South Seas with friends aboard a sailing yacht, it is wagered that Steve can not survive on a desert isle without the accouterments of civilization. After accepting the wager, Steve and his dog swim ashore and begin to recreate their Park Avenue world by way of various Rube Goldberg type contraptions constructed from local materials. Meanwhile, on a nearby island, a young maiden flees her arranged wedding. She canoes to Steve’s island for safety, whereupon she is dubbed “Saturday”. Soon they are attacked by vengeful tribesmen from the neighboring island. Will Steve and Saturday survive?
San Francisco game company Three Rings Design commissioned amazing makers Jillian Northrup and Jeffrey “Toast” McGrew of Because We Can to convert an open studio space into a marvelous immersive environment modeled on the Victorian submarine The Nautilus from Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. The offices have an attacking octopus couch, a secret lounge hidden behind a bookcase, captain’s quarters and a steampunk bike rack, plus a ton of other Victorian details. Because We Can referenced Victorian photo books, appearances of The Nautilus in film and, of course, Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. “We didn’t want ours to be a direct copy of Disney or League of Extraordinary Gentleman,” says McGrew…
A free diver from Cornwall has been turned into a mermaid for a romantic comedy film starring Kelly Brook.
Hannah Stacey, 29, from near Newquay, has donned the prosthetic tail for Fish Tales, a film about a mermaid who falls in love with a university professor.
Hannah, who currently holds the UK’s free diving woman’s record of 54m (177ft), said it was a dream come true.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (RT link) grossed $126.5M on 4362 screens last weekend, which must certainly be a record for a pirate movie. What did you think of it?
Lenka says go see PotC3 right now, or we will shoot the monkey.
In 1963’s James Bond movie From Russia with Love (imdb link), there is a little throwaway scene featuring punting, presumably on the Thames. The scene opens with a chap and his girl gliding by, remarking on what a great sport it is…
…and then pans to the bank to show Agent 007 making out with a girl who has nothing to do with the plot whatsoever. There is simply nothing like messing about in boats, as Ratty says!
Once in a great while you will see an interesting boat in a movie. The start of a continuing series.
In The Talented Mr. Ripley (links: book, movie), Tom Ripley is a poor ‘nobody’ who wishes he were the rich and handsome Dickie Greenleaf. Dickie’s father lives on Park Avenue, and owns a boatyard. Frankly, I’d be happy just having Dickie’s boat, seen here. The setting is Italy in the early ’50s, the boat could be an S&S design, except perhaps for the smallish transom. Can anyone tell me?
Tom spies Dickie’s boat from the beach, through binoculars.
Dickie and Marge swim from their mooring to the beach.
Two (too brief) scenes of daysailing.
The big skiff with the little, unruly outboard (a Seagull, perchance?) in which Dickie meets his undeserved end.
Jewell Pathe’s Bathing Beauty Pirates capture Vitagraph Ships for “Captain Blood” in Balboa Beach, California, June 15, 1924. Photograph by M.F. Weaver.
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