The Wreck of the Mary Deare (film)
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Country United KingdomUnited States | 6.8/10 Genre Adventure, Crime, Drama Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date November 6, 1959 (1959-11-06) Adapted from The Wreck of the Mary Deare Cast (Gideon Patch), (John Sands), (Mr. Nyland), (Janet Taggart), (Higgins), (Sir Wilfred Falcett) Similar movies Inside Llewyn Davis , The Last Survivors , Too Hot to Handle , Blood Alley , The Navy Comes Through , Tiger Bay Tagline The Saga of the Derelict, Mary Deare... the strange secret she carried... the desperate voyage and plot to sink her! |
The wreck of the mary deare 1959
The Wreck of the Mary Deare is a 1959 Metrocolor (in CinemaScope) British-American thriller film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston, and featuring Michael Redgrave, Cecil Parker, Richard Harris and John Le Mesurier. The screenplay by Eric Ambler was based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Hammond Innes.
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- The wreck of the mary deare 1959
- The wreck of the mary deare original theatrical trailer
- Plot
- Production
- Box office
- References

The wreck of the mary deare original theatrical trailer
Plot

The steamship Mary Deare is found adrift at sea by salvager John Sands (Charlton Heston). Sands boards it hoping to claim it for salvage, but finds the first officer, Gideon Patch (Gary Cooper), still aboard and trying to run the ship on his own. Patch has stayed on the ship in order to prove that it was sabotaged to collect insurance on cargo that had secretly been off-loaded at Rangoon. Patch convinces Sands to help him beach the ship, even though it will void his salvage claim. When they return to London, Patch is brought before a board of inquiry to determine what happened. It soon becomes apparent that the ship owners were planning to wreck the Mary Deare all along and have Patch as the fall guy.
Production

The novel was optioned by MGM with the intention of having Alfred Hitchcock direct and Cooper star. Hitchcock had long wanted to work with Cooper, but after developing the script with Ernest Lehman for several weeks, they concluded that it couldn't be done without turning the movie into "a boring courtroom drama". They abandoned the idea and started a new story which eventually became North by Northwest.

The task of adapting the novel passed to Eric Ambler. British director Michael Anderson took over for Hitchcock. The cast included Cooper as Patch, and Charlton Heston as Sands, with Richard Harris and Sir Michael Redgrave in supporting roles. Critics generally agree that the finished film matches Hitchcock and Lehman's prediction. There were long delays in filming due to Gary Cooper's ill health, although he was not diagnosed with cancer until the spring of 1960.
Box office

According to MGM records the film earned $1,165,000 in the US and Canada and $1,650,000 elsewhere.



References
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (film) WikipediaThe Wreck of the Mary Deare (film) IMDb The Wreck of the Mary Deare (film) themoviedb.org