the extraordinary seaman
the extraordinary seaman (the extraordinary sea man) [ non - usa format, pal, reg. 0 import - italy ]
urltoken the extraordinary seaman (the extraordinary sea man) [ non - usa format, pal, reg. 0 import - italy ]: david niven, faye dunaway, alan alda, mickey rooney, jack carter, juano hernandez, manu tupou, barry kelley, leonard o. smith, richard guizon, john frankenheimer, the extraordinary seaman (the extraordinary sea man), the extraordinary seaman, the extraordinary sea man: movies & tv
prophecy and 99 & 44 / 100% dead were both a lot funnier than the extraordinary seaman – even if it was unintentional – and a lot more entertaining. but a laughless comedy is like watching something slowly expire and die .
the extraordinary seaman was released in 1969, after having sat on the shelf for two years. it was frankenheimer’s first comedy and one of his most poorly received films, despite a cast that included david niven, faye dunaway, and alan alda. far better was the…
it is an extraordinary thing, the way they introduce players in spain. not for the denizens of la liga a quick photocall at the training ground with a scarf .
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the extraordinary seaman is strictly steerage cargo. a tepid story keel, not entirely - but almost - devoid of amusement strength, has been ballasted with padding newsreel footage and other effect to yield an unstable comedy vessel. david niven, faye dunaway, alan alda, mickey rooney and jack carter end up awash in the artistic debris .
the extraordinary seaman is strictly steerage cargo. a tepid story keel, not entirely – but almost – devoid of amusement strength, has been ballasted with padding newsreel footage and other effect to yield an unstable comedy vessel. david niven, faye dunaway, alan alda, mickey rooney and jack carter end up awash in the artistic debris .
the extraordinary seaman is strictly steerage cargo. a tepid story keel, not entirely – but almost – devoid of amusement strength, has been ballasted with padding newsreel footage and other effect to yield an unstable comedy vessel. david niven, faye dunaway, alan alda, mickey rooney and jack carter end up awash in the artistic debris. [ … ]
picture from left to right are perry storey, principal; janette foy brown, zach morris, joann foy morris, john foy, trisha foy, veronica seaman, director of advancement & alumni affairs, mike st. charles
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the extraordinary seaman
is one commander flinchaven, a ghost, no less, whose soul can be released from the curse of a disappointed grandfather only after being properly dispatched in battle with an enemy ship at least of the cruiser class. how the wandering commander achieves salvation through the bumbling of a crew of incompetents makes a readable story, albeit a bit long on imagination and short on plot. perhaps the only thing really wrong is that mr. rock, like flinchaven, takes himself a bit too seriously, and therefore what could have been a tellingly whimsical commentary on a bottom - heavy structure of values becomes a very ordinary
straight
novel of no particular distinction .
al, thanks for those interesting tidbits and catching that jack carter error. pratley was probably trying to put a positive spin on the extraordinary seaman as a favor to frankenheimer but any anti - war satire is mia in this one. for some bizarre reason, hitler, stalin, mussolini, churchill, fdr and a few others make cameo appearances in the film’s finale. also, hitler, stalin, tojo, “and millions of nazis, japanese and americans” are credited in that last poster in my blog – it’s almost like a “kids in the hall” joke except there is no funny context for it in this movie .
i first saw this movie in 1969, and have seen it on cable recently. all i ever see are bad reviews on this movie. it is a great movie, with a great cast, david niven, faye dunaway, mickey rooney, alan alda, jack carter. now these are top notch actors. do you think they needed money so badly, they would make a stinker? no. the movie is fun and enjoyable to watch. i hope it is released worldwide, like they seem to do with a lot of movies that are truly stinkers. long live the extraordinary seaman. j. r. savannah, ga
pictured from left to righ are, front row: tommy phifer, son of the late jim phifer; veronica seaman, director of advancement & alumni affairs; helen phifer, wife of the late jim phifer; pauline eberle; tom eberle; nancy eberle howard; perry storey, principal back row: jim eberle jr. ; bill eberle, rick eberle
gone are the days, 1963; paper lion, 1968; jenny, 1969; the extraordinary seaman, 1969; t he moonshine war, 1970; catch - 22, 1970; the mephisto waltz, 1971; to kill a clown, 1972; same time, next year, 1978; california suite, 1978; the seduction of joe tynan (also writer), 1979; the four seasons (also director and writer), 1981; sweet liberty (also director and writer), 1986; a new life (also director and writer), 1988; crimes and misdemeanors, 1989; betsy' s wedding (also director and writer), 1990; whispers in the dark, 1992; manhattan murder mystery, 1993; canadian bacon, 1994; flirting with disaster, 1995 .
mostly young, the crowd filtered into the lower tier of the stadium and busied themselves before the arrival of the new man singing libellous songs about lionel messi’s intellectual capacity .
that is the gamble the club make. they break the transfer record with alacrity in part to demonstrate they operates at a different level from the rest of the football world .
pratley’s commentary praises the movie for its wit (!) and the use of the documentary footages. frankenheimer says that trying to obtain the rights to the documentary stuff held up the release. he also refers to the film as an anti - war statement that terrified mgm .
the lieutenant doesn' t buy this, still believing finchhaven to be
a royal navy officer who went mad
and tries to get his three companions to join him in a mutiny to stop finchhaven, but they refuse to help. (incidentally, the companions are a motorcycle mechanic, a cook, and an enlisted sailor .) so when they stop to barter for supplies with a few local natives on a raft, the lieutenant finds excuses to get the cook and the seaman onto the raft and clear, while finchaven rams the curmudgeon into an enemy warship... that turns out to be the american ship on which the japanese admiral is surrendering. finchhaven' s furious ancestors thus condemn him to spend the rest of eternity on board an
authentic reproduction of the hms curmudgeon
as it sails parties around the thames .
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i’m a big admirer of john frankenheimer’s early work from such live tv dramas as the comedian (1956) and days of wine and roses (1957) to all fall down (1962), birdman of alcatraz (1962), the manchurian candidate (1962) and seconds (1966). i’ve also enjoyed several of the more commercial projects he helmed throughout his career such as seven days in may (1964), black sunday (1977) and ronin (1998). but he’s also had his share of boxoffice bombs and critically maligned movies over the years – the horsemen (1971), story of a love story aka impossible object (1973), 99 and 44 / 100% dead (1974), dead bang (1989), the island of dr. moreau (1996), to name a few. yet the most notoriously panned film of his career is easily the extraordinary seaman and in frankenheimer’s own words, “it was the only movie i’ve made which i would say was a total disaster. ” so i finally decided to see for myself if it lives up to its notoriety .
only the best in the world were entitled to wear the white shirt. he described the deal to bring bale to the club as “intense and complex negotiations”, which may well qualify as the nicest thing anyone has ever said about levy’s bargaining style .
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pratley writes: “the very ship looks funny, the shape of it, the way it wallows along. the characters look funny and constantly behave in an amusing way. ”
bale is their latest experiment in excess, bought for £85 million in the teeth of the worst recession in spanish history, just to prove they are still the leaders in the game .
a somewhat prim and proper englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the japanese ambassador. his life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes .
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that' s just about all you can say about this film that is so bad you simply have to gape in wonderment. although just 80 minutes long, the film features an extraordinary amount of padding via moronic file footage of such events as bess truman trying unsuccessfully to break a bottle of champagne across an aircraft' s nose. the plot has something to do with a ghost (david niven) whose old scow of world war i vessel is discovered by some american sailors in the final days of world war ii in the pacific. the producers probably thought that with alda, rooney, dunaway (just off her
bonny and clyde
fame, recall) and frankenheimer helming the whole thing, it couldn' t miss. well, it did .
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reception of naval vc in old kent road. location, south london. ceremony for naval v. c. hero. able seaman albert edward mckenzie, vc. mckenzie received his vc for his part in the zeebrugge raid, where he served in hms vindictive. he was selected by his shipmates for the award, which was presented by the king in the summer of 1918. sadly, mckenzie caught influenza in the epidemic which swept across europe at the end of the great war. he died at chatham naval hospital in october 1918 aged nineteen. shot of crowd at reception; held in old kent road. cus of mckenzie. first he sits there looking terrified; then he smiles; but still looks scared. walks up aisle with lord mayor; etc. double - decker buses in bg. world war one; honours .
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after bale had said his few words, to tumultuous applause, the pair were joined on the stage by the madrid board, a bunch of men who have the look of money; in their case, other people’s money, mainly that belonging to the bank .
in england, it is the manager who welcomes a player to his club, holding up one end of the shirt in the photographs, beamingly slapping him on the back. but this is madrid, where the manager is an afterthought. and ancelotti was nowhere in sight .
i have a question before i order this. is the movie in english? the title is in italian !
the film was a financial failure - frankenheimer later said it was never properly released because the producers went bankrupt .
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all those lessons he has been taking paid off on monday when gareth bale stood before the massed ranks of the faithful at the bernabéu stadium and addressed them in their own language .
the production faced one obstacle after another. after failing to find locations in the philippines, frankenheimer settled on a remote mexican location on the gulf coast, a literal backwater far from civilization, where equipment and supplies had to be trucked in through the jungle. faye dunaway recalls
nearly daily tropical downpours
that
could drive anyone to the brink of madness .
the rain sent the film over schedule while, according to frankenheimer, misunderstandings with the script supervisor (hired from the local mexican industry, where they did things a little differently) left them with significantly less material in the can than they assumed. faced with a film well under feature length, frankenheimer interspersed clips of newsreels and classic wartime movies through the film, played as ironic counterpoint to the incompetence of the characters on screen, to pad out the running time .
also, as you mention, the timing was terrible. movies like wackiest ship in the army and operation petticoat were passe .
dismissed by the people i saw it with in the theater, this is john frankenheimer trying to channel rene clair in the ghost goes west but the connection gets broken during the seance. seeming overlong, inconclusive, and a bit too cute, it' s not where frankenheimer' s talent lay. if you can unwind, however, you might just enjoy alan alda' s perplexity with the always interesting and elegant david niven in this mild fantasy which tries to form itself in the pacific during the war .
cast: david niven (cmdr. john finchhaven, rn), faye dunaway (jennifer winslow), alan alda (lt.' j. g.' morton krim), mickey rooney (cook 3 / c w. j. oglethorpe), jack carter (chief gunners mate orville toole), juano hernandez (ali shar), manu tupou (seaman 1 / c lightfoot star), barry kelley (adm. barnwell), leonard o. smith (dyak), richard guizon (dyak), john cochran (dyak), jerry fujikawa (adm. shimagoshi) .
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indeed, as with many a madrid occasion, the absences spoke as noisily as those present. just five summers ago a similarly ebullient welcome was made for kaka, 40, 000 spilling into the ground to watch the smiley brazilian take his place on the pantheon .
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the movie is, allegedly, a satire, a war comedy, set near the end of ww ii in the south pacific, in which four shipwrecked crew members from the us navy come upon an old royal navy cutter, the hms curmudgeon, beached on a sandbar. the only person aboard is lt. commander finchhaven, an elegant, bearded englishman wearing the dress whites of a previous war. the americans help him repair the ship and get it sailing again, only to be informed that he intends to sail to leyte to sink an enemy cruiser, and nothing can persuade him to do otherwise .
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i think you called this one the way it happened. the fixer was supposed to be frankenheimer’s big oscar winner. that never occurred .
by the way, at one point near the end of the blog you refer to jack carter as jack carson. carson, of course, was a beloved contract player on the warner lot. carter was a stand - up comic who appeared often on ed sullivan’s show .
what greeted bale was less an introduction than an investiture: welcome the new prince of wales. or, as the memorabilia on sale outside the ground insisted he should now be termed, hello “galactico gareth” .
the biggest of all these madrid introductions was for cristiano ronaldo back in 2009. that day 80, 000 packed the stadium to greet the world’s most expensive player after his purchase from manchester united. so full was it that day, fans were pouring on to the pitch .
after tottenham’s daniel levy had turned the final days of negotiation over his transfer into a game of who - blinks - first, the platform had been hastily taken down ahead of the weekend game against bilbao .
tracked from the moment he arrived at the stadium by a television crew, bale, dressed in a sleek, slim - fit suit, did indeed look visibly thrilled to be stepping out at the bernabéu .
so he put on the full madrid kit and, sporting a pair of vibrant lemon boots, headed down to the pitch, where he performed a few keepy - uppies, kicked a bunch of footballs into the stands and – to a ringing ovation – kissed the famous crest on his white shirt. with that the easy part was done .
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i found an old book called “the cinema of john frankenheimer, ” written in 1969 by gerald pratley that gives a whole different spin on the movie. it analyzes the director’s movies based on interviews with him .
pérez was effusive in his welcome. never shy of grandiloquence, madrid, the president insisted, did not waste time with the second rate .
mr. foy is a 1961 notre dame graduate. currently, he serves as the chief financial officer of cbl properties, as a member of the board of trustees of the university of tennessee, and as a member of the board of directors of the electric power board of chattanooga. mr. foy played a key role in the development and construction of notre dame’s varallo athletic & fine arts center. foy was also honored at the golden grads brunch as he became a member of the society of golden grads, a group of alums who have reached their 50th reunion year .
i actually paid money to see this when it ran at the sunset drive - in here in evansville, in, in 1969 and have became aware over the years that i was among the very few paying customers the film ever had. i remember going because of the rather small ad that played up david niven’s involvement in what seemed to be a comedy. the film was so bland that my only memories of it are the colorful location photography and niven. a total ho - hummer of a movie .
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i saw the movie sometime during 1969. i was stationed in viet nam at the time. we had a makeshift theater set up in our camp. in retrospect, it seems like a terrible thing to do the troops .
to simulate the original environment, pic was shot in baja, california, but what shows in the final cut could have been shot off santa barbara .
this year, the award was given to an entire family for their dedication and service to notre dame that spans over four decades. the late mr. jim eberle and his wife pauline were the force behind the building of notre dame’s football stadium, and “jim eberle field” still stands as a symbol of the love and dedication the eberle family has for the school. the eberle siblings, jim eberle, ‘73; tom eberle, ’75; rick eberle, ’78; bill eberle, ’81; and nancy eberle howard, ’82; have continued their parents’ tradition of service giving of their time and treasure. their children are also recent graduates and current students of notre dame. tommy phifer, ’76, who presented the award stated, “the eberles never say no. ”
lt. commander finchhaven, a ghostly relic from the first world war, he had fallen down dead drunk on his first assignment and been consigned from the great beyond to sail the seas until a... see full summary »
sitting down next to the club president florentino pérez in the directors’ box, he had problems getting the headphones of his translation device over his ears. but then he didn’t need a translator to tell him what the crowd were singing. they were serenading him with chants of “bale - y, bale - y” .
alda found fame on m * a * s * h where his depiction of sensitive surgeon hawkeye pierce won him five emmy awards. set in the korean war of the 1950s, and broadcast in part during the vietnam war in the 1970s, m * a * s * h won acclaim for its broad and irreverent humor, its ability to effectively combine drama with comedy, and its overall liberal humanist stance. in adapting the show from the 1970 robert altman film, producer and director gene reynolds and writer larry gelbart used distinctive telefilm aesthetics and a complex narrative structure that set the show apart from the proscenium style series that dominated television in the 1960s. the show' s influence was broad - - traceable perhaps most directly in the large number of multi - character
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it was not quite like that for the softly spoken signing from spurs. there were about 20, 000 there for a first glimpse of the new boy .
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really, i don’t think you can blame frankenheimer’s sense of humor. he was involved with the colgate comedy hour, with eddie cantor and martin & lewis during the early days of television. and there are some sly satiric jabs in the manchurian candidate. it just seems like a project that got away from the director .
i remember this movie as a ghost that shows up in the hours before sunrise on the tv, from time to time. it' s quite absurd, but i guess life, and even war itself, sometimes feel just as nonsensical. i also believe the producers were quite possibly against the war in vietnam that was happening at the time. anyway, it was astoundingly funny to watch this one .
set in the philippines where three us navy men, in flight from the japanese, discover an urbane niven, as a royal navy officer, living in uncanny nattiness aboard a beached ship. dunaway joins the crew as niven sets sail for australia .
it might not have been on the linguistic level of jose mourinho using milanese slang when he first spoke to the italian media on assuming responsibility of inter, but it was enough to have a crowd of enthusiastic madridistas chanting his name to the echo .
mr. john foy is the 2011 recipient of the notre dame distinguished alumni award. the distinguished alumnus award is given to a graduate of notre dame who displays citizenship and community service in their respective community, exhibits strong leadership skills, has attained notable personal or professional achievement and reflects and supports the mission of notre dame high school .
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laughless absurdist satire; the first disaster from a director capable of so much more .
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review, one of the less hostile reviews. mgm held up the film for two years, and then gave it a nominal release before it disappeared except for infrequent television showings .
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the american lieutenant, played by alan alda, discovers an old photograph of the crew, and the commander looks frighteningly like finchhaven, and accuses him of being mad and impersonating the man in the picture. finchhaven quietly informs him that he is not mad - - he' s a ghost, a spirit, the last scion of a long line of english mariners who managed to die at sea in every battle england ever fought. this particular finchhaven, however, died of a booze - induced stroke just before his first battle, and the german ship he had hoped to engage sailed by unmolested; his furious ancestors decide to send him back to the curmudgeon until he can redeem himself by sinking an enemy ship .
“gareth, that moment you dreamt about as a kid is now a reality. you are now at the most demanding club in the world. ” no pressure there, then .
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lt. commander finchhaven, a ghostly relic from the first world war, he had fallen down dead drunk on his first assignment and been consigned from the great beyond to sail the seas until a further opportunity arises to redeem his actions. during the second world war, he is encountered by a quartet of american seamen that includes lt. morton krim and cook w. j. oglethorpe. a deal is completed whereby the men will help re - float finchhaven' s command in return for a passage to australia. they raid a village to secure batteries for the engine and come upon the feisty jennifer winslow who offers them aid in return for a passage with the crew. eventually they reach the open sea. finchhaven' s ghostly status is revealed and lt. krim and jennifer help him to sink a japanese cruiser .
which is really sad, because it could have been a much better film if they hadn' t tried to go for
experimental satire .
made in 1969, this may have been intended as a parody of all the flag - waving, glory - mongering ww ii films with the stock footage inserts that had been so popular for much of the preceding two decades. maybe they had only a short story that they needed to puff up to feature length, or maybe the editor or producer or some guy who swept the floor in the studio had watched too many
mony python
bits and thought the extra footage would be funny, i don' t know, but it ruined the film. my husband, who has a soft spot for both war pictures and one - star films, thought it was so dreadful that he fast - forwarded through most of it; and i only watched the last fifteen minutes of it after listening to it from the kitchen, which is why i don' t know the name of alan alda' s character, or what faye dunaway was doing on the ship, or how they and toole and oglethorpe and lightfoot got to be marooned in the first place .
now, as i said, there' s nothing wrong with the story - - it' s a pretty good concept, and i likes me a nice ghost story. david niven looks elegant as finchhaven, but then david niven has a patent on british elegance. and the segment where he tells his history to the lieutenant is amusing, because the visuals don' t match the words - - his family are not a long line of noble sailors, but a bunch of clods who keep getting killed in battle shortly after knocking up their women and thus ensuring the succession .
but now it was back, decorated with pictures of bale as a 10 - year - old wearing the madrid shirt. proof, evidently, of his lifelong ambition to play for the club .
but he was not there to greet the newbie. on the very day bale was paraded, kaka was quietly let go on a free transfer to milan, his contribution to the madrid cause having cost over £650, 000 per appearance. and that is without even taking into account his wages .
a nuclear weapon detonation is seen, but there were no nuclear weapons at this point in the war. nuclear weapons were not tested anywhere but in a desert until a few years after the war .
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frankenheimer also says the film was based on philip rock’s screenplay and was an interesting premise, nothing more. then hal dresner did a rewrite. “he was very much against the viet nam war. ”
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jeff, thanks so much for this article. i’d always wondered about this film because, like you, i’m a big admirer of frankenheimer’s early work. you might even make a case for him as doing the best work of any american director in the 1960s. after the 1960s is unfortunately another story .
set against the backdrop of the pacific campaign during wwii, the story opens as four american sailors get separated from their fellow servicemen during a small craft maneuver in thick fog. they accidentally capsize their boat and wade ashore to an unknown island in the philippines which may or may not be occupied by japanese soldiers. upon further investigation, they discover a marooned ship, the h. m. s. curmudgeon, which at first appears to be deserted but is actually the current residence of british commander finchhaven. once he reveals himself to the sailors, they learn his back story and the boat’s past history – formerly a gunboat, it is now a wrecked supply ship with countless crates of whiskey and not much else. in exchange for passage off the island, they agree to help him repair the ship and go scavenging for materials and supplies. at a seemingly deserted plantation, they raid a warehouse for what they need but are threatened with a gun by the property owner, jennifer winslow. she is planning to flee the island herself before japanese forces arrive but strikes a bargain with the sailors to escape with them in exchange for what they need. once at sea, a romance develops between jennifer and lieutenant morton krim while further complications threaten to waylay their return to safety such as japanese fighter planes, a bunch of shipwrecked natives, and finchhaven’s misguided attempts to play the hero after disgracing his family name with a past offense .
( 1967) when she was cast as the beautiful gun - toting grease - monkey of a trading post operator given passage in exchange for supplies. frankenheimer underplays the romance angle, letting the slapstick complications throw them together time and again while the chemistry of two attractive young people in a crew of old eccentrics did the rest. it' s a wartime comedy of a misfit unit and a captain of questionable pedigree, a military farce, a slapstick romance and a crazy ghost story all in one strange package .
they give him an unlimited amount of time to do so. and although the curmudgeon had been decommissioned, stripped of its guns, and sold after the war, finchaven has a bundle of very irritable - looking dynamite to use to sink his target, which was hidden under a trick floorboard in the bridge .
alda, who also wrote and directed many episodes of the show, has become indelibly associated with m * a * s * h, . which continues to be well watched as one of the most successful comedies in syndication. his
sensitive male
persona, derived in large part from his characterization on m * a * s * h, has lingered into the 1990s and continues to be sustained by public awareness of his efforts on behalf of women' s rights. an ardent feminist, alda campaigned extensively for ten years for the passage of the equal rights amendment, and in 1976, was appointed by president ford to serve on the national commission for the observance of international women' s year. alda' s status as a feminist led a writer in the boston globe to dub him
the quintessential honorary woman: a feminist icon .
despite such associations, alda' s most acclaimed recent performance was his portrayal of a conniving producer in the 1989 woody allen film crimes and misdemeanors. alda won the d. w. griffith award, the new york film critics award, and was nominated for a british academy award as best supporting actor for his work in the film. perhaps alda seeks to alter, or at least add other dimensions to his
character type
following this success. he has more recently continued this exploration of a
darker side
with his portrayal of a driven corporate executive in the hbo original production, white mile .
besides the uncomfortable working conditions on such a remote location, the weather made filming even more unpredictable with daily tropical rainstorms extending the ten week shoot into a much longer ordeal. but the more famous cast members were able to make the most of it. dunaway recalled, “john and his wife, evans evans, whom i knew from our days on bonnie and clyde, tried to bring a little civilization to the nights there. they would have elegant dinners, with deliciously prepared food, and fine wines that john had flown in; those who were among the ones lucky enough to get a dinner invitation would all sit around being entertained by david niven. he was a wonderful raconteur and would tell us tales of old hollywood. ”
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for a moment it looked as if the poor lad had been invited into a corleone family photograph. but then his own relatives were invited up, all of them seemingly astonished at the reception afforded their lad .
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kolbert, elizabeth .
hawkeye turns mean, sensitively .
the new york times, 19 may 1994 .
are memories of david niven ,
frankenheimer recalled decades later to charles champlin, a sentiment echoed in dunaway' s memoirs. her best memories of the production were elegant dinners thrown by frankenheimer and his wife where niven was the center of attention .
he was a wonderful raconteur and would tell us tales of old hollywood, all the behind - the - scenes intrigues that make it such a rich, if often distasteful, culture .
that' s not exactly right, since the americans don' t actually help, and jennifer and krim were still aboard mostly by accident. i don' t remember seeing how and where they picked up the girl .
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but still, bale’s new employers were keen to make him feel he was coming to the right place. they had, for instance, commissioned a sizeable stage for the event, which was constructed last week in expectation of his arrival .
the big problem with this film is that it tries to be
artsy
by cutting in more stock footage than a hundred genre films would ever use. it randomly cuts in battle scenes, parades, quick cameo shots of key ww ii players, and then does things like run the film forward and backward in what is meant to be a comic way, but which ends up looking like somebody' s eight - year - old got ahold of the projector. and it also tends to jump back and forth from color film to black and white, even in the sequences with the actors .
: well, flotsam is something from a shipwreck, and jetsam is something thrown overboard in order to lighten the ship .
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henry tawes is the sheriff in a small town in tennessee. a man of strong moral fibre, he is always quick to judge others and follows the law zealously. then he meets alma, a young beautiful... see full summary »
david niven was going through a rough patch at this point in his career and with this movie he hit a positive thicket. alan alda, mickey rooney and jack carter, on the run from the japanese, find a natty niven living on a beached ship in the philippines. faye dunaway joins the crew, which is consolation for nobody but her agent, as director john frankenheimer seems unable to get to grips with this alleged comedy. niven, however, handles it all with his customary aplomb .
: oh, that' s, uh, that' s just some flotsam, or jetsam. whatever the difference is .
( 1966), a sprawling drama of race car drivers shot on locations across europe with a glamorous international cast, frankenheimer wanted to change gears, so to speak. he chose a world war ii comedy about an eccentric british captain whose barely seaworthy wreck of a ship is beached on a small island in the philippines. when four misfit american sailors, who were lost at sea, wash up on the island, they help the captain repair his ship with the aid of a female trading post owner .
thank god for imdb, though, for it explains that
- - he is encountered by a quartet of american seamen that includes lt. morton krim and cook w. j. oglethorpe. a deal is completed whereby the men will help re - float finchhaven' s command in return for a passage to australia. they raid a village to secure batteries for the engine and come upon the feisty jennifer winslow who offers them aid in return for a passage with the crew. eventually they reach the open sea. finchhaven' s ghostly status is revealed and lt. krim and jennifer help him to sink a japanese cruiser .
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alan alda is a television and film star best known for his work in the long running cbs television series m * a * s * h. he has been well honored for that role, having garnered twenty - eight emmy nominations, two writer' s guild awards, three director' s guild awards, six golden globes from the hollywood foreign press association, and seven people' s choice awards. alda is the only person to have been honored by the television academy as top performer, writer and director .
this movie has all the elements of a great movie, with a suspense ending. the ever - lasting bottle of scotch, was a wonderful touch and i for one would love to have a bottle just like that. this movie, though far - fetched, was a wonderful imaginative film, and usually the type that had not only comedy, imagination, but great acting as well. it looked like they were all having fun in the making of it, and i found it hilarious while watching it in calgary alta .
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the son of actor robert alda, he traveled with his father on the vaudeville circuit, and began performing in summer stock theatre as a teenager. during his junior year at fordham university, alda studied in europe where he performed on the stage in rome and on television in amsterdam with his father. after college he acted at the cleveland playhouse on a ford foundation grant. upon returning to new york. alda worked on broadway, off - broadway and on television. he later acquired improvisational training with second city and compass in hyannisport, and that background in political and social satire led to his work as a regular on television' s that was the week that was .
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“it’s a dream for me to play at real madrid, ” the world’s most expensive footballer said in stuttering but nonetheless entirely recognisable spanish .
but he did thank tottenham “for the wonderful opportunity to have this player as part of our plans”. and then he addressed bale directly .
bennetts, leslie .
alda stars in m * a * s * h seminar .
the new york times, 18 october 1986 .
kalter, suzy. the complete book of m * a * s * h. new york: h. n. abrams, 1984 .
and then…i remember gradually realizing, with a terrible sinking feeling, that this isn’t very good. why in the hell did they make this ?
such an event was this, there was a line of fans snaking right round the stadium seeking admission two hours before things got under way .
this film isn' t as dire as the one - star reviews claim. that said, it isn' t very good either. it' s just... odd and doesn' t really go anywhere. david niven is his urbane, david niveny self as a sort of british version of the flying dutchman who has to redeem himself through an act of war - time valor instead of an act of love. alan alda is alan alda. faye dunaway is the girl with moxie (sporting 1960' s hair - dos during ww2). mickey rooney has very little to do. the conceit of inserting old newsreel footage into the film didn' t bother me, i thought the clips were interesting. i did learn two things while watching this; 1) i had forgotten the difference between flotsam and jetsam and faye dunaway was nice enough to explain it. 2) before milton bradley released battleship as a plastic board game, you could apparently play it on graph paper. something more interesting could have been done with niven' s character and the whole concept. with a better script this could' ve been a pretty good film.
the extraordinary seaman is a 1969 american comedy war film directed by john frankenheimer and starring david niven , faye dunaway , alan alda , mickey rooney , and jack carter . apart from his participation in the documentaries that 's entertainment ! ( 1974 ) , and that 's entertainment ! iii ( 1994 ) , the movie is notable for being the last film mickey rooney acted in which was released by metro-goldwyn-mayer . cinematography is by lionel lindon . 
the extraordinary seaman is a 1969 american comedy war film directed by john frankenheimer and starring david niven, faye dunaway, alan alda, mickey rooney, and jack carter. apart from his participation in the documentaries that's entertainment! ( 1974), and that's entertainment! iii (1994), the movie is notable for being the last film mickey rooney acted in which was released by metro-goldwyn-mayer. cinematography is by lionel lindon.
the extraordinary seaman is a 1969 american comedy war film directed by john frankenheimer and starring david niven, faye dunaway, alan alda, mickey rooney, and jack carter. apart from his participation in the documentaries that's entertainment! ( 1974), and that's entertainment! iii (1994), the movie is notable for being the last film mickey rooney acted in which was released by metro-goldwyn-mayer. cinematography is by lionel lindon.