Captain Calamity

Nov 28, 1936

1h 0m

★ 2.5

The Screen's Newest Action-Singing Sensation as a Two-Fisted Sea Ranger Who Loved to Fight and Fought to Love.

Overview

A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.

Genres

Action

Adventure

Production Companies

Grand National Pictures

George A. Hirliman Productions

Captain Calamity Trailers

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Cast

(Cap't) Bill Jones

George Houston

Madge

Marian Nixon

Burp

Vince Barnett

Dr. Kelkey

Crane Wilbur

Mike

Juan Torena

Annana

Movita

Samson

Roy D'Arcy

Pierre

George J. Lewis

Mamie Gruen

Margaret Irving

E.D. Joblin - Store Owner

Louis Natheaux

Carr

Barry Norton

Trader Jim

Lloyd Ingraham

Pippi Longstocking, a superhuman girl, extremely strong, redhead with pigtails and freckles, moves to Villa Villekulla, a wooden house located in a small town, together with her monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and her horse, Little Old Man. She soon befriends the children who live next door, Tommy and Annika, with whom she will live many fun adventures. (At Finnish National Opera and Ballet, December 14, 2019.)

6.6

The Hurricane

Nov 9, 1937

A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.

5.2

Trader Horn

Feb 3, 1931

While on safari in an unexplored area of Africa, Trader Horn and Peru find missionary Edith Trent killed by natives. They decide to carry on her quest for her lost daughter Nina. They find her as the queen of a particularly savage tribe, and try to bring her back to civilization.

0.0

The Isle of Sunken Gold

Aug 31, 1927

Isle of Sunken Gold is a 1927 American adventure film serial directed by Harry S. Webb. The film was long considered to be lost, however, chapters 4, 5, and 6 and reel 1 of chapter 7 were recently discovered in a European archive and retranslated back into English. A sea captain obtains half of a map directing him to an enormous treasure on a south sea island. The princess who rules the island possesses the other half of the map, and together they fight off the pirates and natives who would prevent their retrieval of the treasure.

0.0

Ships of the Night

Nov 27, 1928

In search of her fugitive brother, who wounded a man who was later murdered, Johanna Hearne encounters pirates, a Chinaman with a harem and criminals as slaves, and love on a desert island for ship captain Dan Meloy.

0.0

The Treasure of Makuba

Mar 1, 1967

They came to the Polynesian Islands, fabulous for its Polynesian pearls… its strange rites… its exotic women…

6.0

Souls at Sea

Sep 3, 1937

Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.

7.2

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

Jan 29, 1942

Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.

6.2

Below the Sea

Mar 29, 1933

A wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions.

5.4

South Sea Woman

Jun 27, 1953

Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges. Showgirl Ginger Martin takes the stand against his protest. She testifies O'Hearn won't talk because he is protecting the name of his pal, Marine Private Davey White. Ginger tells how she, broke and stranded, met the two marines in Shanghai two weeks before Pearl Harbor.

5.3

Isle of Fury

Oct 10, 1936

An island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.

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0.0

The Devil's Apple Tree

Feb 20, 1929

Unable to pay for her passage upon setting sail to the tropics to meet her mail-order husband, Dorothy Ryan assumes the identity of a wealthy passenger who is presumed dead. Enjoying the preferential treatment she receives; Dorothy continues the masquerade when she arrives at her destination. She forgets all about her husband-to-be and falls for local aristocrat John Rice (Larry Kent). The party ends when the woman whom Dorothy is pretending to be suddenly shows up, very much alive and incredibly angry. Disgraced in the eyes of John's family, Dorothy wanders into the jungle only to be captured by natives and sentenced to be burned at the stake. Will true love John be able to rescue her in time?

4.9

Terror Island

Apr 8, 1920

Inventor Harry Harper travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl, Beverly West. Naturally, others are after the loot, and Beverly's father is being held captive by cannibals until she returns to them with a pearl that belongs to one of their idols. The climax consists of Harper saving Beverly from a safe which has been lowered into the sea.

6.2

Hurricane Smith

Oct 2, 1952

South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana.