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Seven Waves Away ( Abandon Ship (Seven Seas Away) ) ( Seven Days from Now (7 Waves Away) )

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The presentation of the people? The situation of the dog and the indication of what was to follow? Those who stayed? Those who had to go, those who decided to go? The bonds of fear? Seven Waves Away (alternate U.S. titles: Abandon Ship! and Seven Days From Now) is a 1957 British adventure film directed by Richard Sale and starring Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan, and Stephen Boyd. After his cruise ship hits a mine and with the captain dead, an officer has to make an agonizing decision on an overcrowded lifeboat.

The luxury liner SS Crescent Star sinks in seven minutes after striking a rogue mine in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, taking with her nearly all of the 1156 people on board. Twenty-seven of the survivors converge on a single lifeboat designed to accommodate only nine. The dying captain passes command to executive officer Alec Holmes (Tyrone Power). Holmes then learns from "Sparks" Clary ( John Stratton), the ships radio operator, that both transmitters were destroyed before a call for help could be sent. Holmes decides to try to reach the nearest land, Africa, 1500 miles away. A Classic Movie Blog says: "I think this is a good format for performers with short lives and brief careers ... I went into it with only mild curiosity about Twelvetrees and now I find my self pining for copies of unavailable, but intriguing films." Full review. Seven Waves Away is a 1957 British adventure film directed by Richard Sale and starring Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan, and Stephen Boyd. After his cruise ship hits a mine and with the captain dead, an officer has to make an agonizing decision on an overcrowded lifeboat. Seven Waves Away [Abandon Ship!] *** (1957, Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan, Stephen Boyd) – Classic Movie Review 12,492

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The film upgrades the ship to a large luxury liner in the mid-20th century and places it in the Pacific or South Atlantic Ocean as opposed to an emigrant vessel in the North Atlantic in the mid-19th century. It also takes many dramatic liberties with details and invents some over-dramatized subplots yet retains the larger events and moral dilemma essentially intact. The time line of the real events is naturally compressed in the film for clarity, but very well paced.

As gripping and powerful as it is, ABANDON SHIP! is a survival story that's hard to view from the comfort of an armchair or theater seat. The viewer can identify so completely with the daunting task facing the ship's officer (TYRONE POWER) when making life and death decisions with regard to how many people can use the lifeboat when a sunken ship leaves them adrift at sea. Silver Screenings says: "A fascinating account of an ambitious and hard-working woman ... Aliperti’s book is well written and incredibly well researched." Full review. As Tyrone Power describes it, the mine didn't just strike the ship in one spot. It went under the ship and bounced along the bottom and when it exploded, it cut the ship right in half. It was down faster than the Lusitania when it was torpedoed. Less than 10 minutes, no lifeboats launched, no distress signal sent. Love Blooms [L’amour debout] *** (2019, Paul Delbreil, Adèle Csech, Samuel Fasse) – Classic Movie Review 12,727 26 Nov 2023

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Tyrone Power is the officer and Mai Zetterling is the nurse. There is a strong cast of British character actors as well as Stephen Boyd in an early role. One of the first things a viewer might notice about the film is that it's so disjointed that it must be "based on a true story." Else why does Power first climb aboard a raft with four others, then leave them and swim to the distant boat. What became of the raft and the people on it? Why is the raft and its passengers IN the movie if it hadn't happened to be there in historic reality? Second, wow, what a lot of familiar faces are in this boat. Not just Power and Nolan, but a lot of British actors and actresses whose faces will be familiar, if not their names. The small group spots a lifeboat in the distance. Alec notes that it's the Captain's shore boat. At only 18 feet long it obviously already has too many people in it. They're better off where they are. Someone is spotted swimming towards them. Alec dives in to rescue them and it turns out to be Julie (Zetterling), the ship's nurse and Alec's girlfriend. Ecstatic over finding each other the reunion is cut short by a shark circling them. Alec and Julie have drifted closer to the heavily populated Captain's boat where Mac (Boyd) calls to them and fires a gun at the shark. Based upon an alleged true story, this is the story of the accidental explosion of a cruise ship heading to Europe from New York due to a floating mine. Tyrone Power is the surviving highest officer of the ship who manages to make it aboard the captain's boat before the captain passes away. The boat only fits nine, with an absolute maximum of twelve, so with twenty on it or hanging on to the side, the debate begins from the very beginning of how power will guide the boat to land. Needless to say, the decision of who will be forced to leave the boat is not an easy one, and when I see storm strikes, it becomes a necessary decision to only a the strongest and leave the ailing to God. Beyond the Walls [Hors les murs] **** (2012, Matila Malliarakis, Guillaume Gouix, David Salles) – Classic Movie Review 12,724 21 Nov 2023

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