Fair Wind to Java (1953)
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Republic Pictures' notion of an "epic", Fair Wind to Java manages to pack in enough entertainment value to send the adventure fans home happy. Tough South Seas skipper Fred MacMurray goes hunting for pearls on a forbidden Javanese island. Native girl Vera Ralston (never mind her Czech… More Republic Pictures' notion of an "epic", Fair Wind to Java manages to pack in enough entertainment value to send the adventure fans home happy. Tough South Seas skipper Fred MacMurray goes hunting for pearls on a forbidden Javanese island. Native girl Vera Ralston (never mind her Czech accent) falls in love with MacMurray and defies local laws to help him. She is punished by the island rulers, compelling MacMurray to spirit both Vera and the pearls off the island. As they make a last desperate attempt to escape, a lava-spewing volcano threatens to destroy the island. While the shipboard scenes in Fair Wind to Java are as shoddy as a high school production of Pirates of Penzance, the climactic volcanic eruption is masterfully staged by miniature experts Howard Lydecker and Theodore Lydecker. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Joseph Kane
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Apr 28, 1953 Wide
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Cast
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Fred MacMurray
as Capt. Boll
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Vera Ralston
as Kim Kim
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Robert Douglas
as St. Ebenezer/Pulo Besar
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Victor McLaglen
as O'Brien
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John Russell
as Flint
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Buddy Baer
as King
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Claude Jarman Jr.
as Chess
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Grant Withers
as Jason Blue
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Howard Petrie
as Reeder
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Paul Fix
as Wilson
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William Murphy
as Ahab
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Sujata
as Dancer
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Philip Ahn
as Gusti
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Stephen Bekassy
as Lieutenant
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Virginia Brissac
as Bintang
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Howard Chuman
as Guard
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John Halloran
as Guard
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Chuck Hayward
as Sailor
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Al Kikume
as Guard
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Keye Luke
as Pidada
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Vera Miles
as Kim Kim
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Richard Reeves
as Hoppo Two
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Blackie Whiteford
as Sailor
