Fair Wind to Java

Jan 28, 1953

1h 32m

★ 4.9

ADVENTURE...SPECTACLE...SAVAGE LOVE!

Overview

The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...

Genres

Action

Adventure

Production Companies

Republic Pictures

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Cast

Captain Boll

Fred MacMurray

Kim Kim

Vera Ralston

Saint Ebenezer / Pulo Besar

Robert Douglas

O'Brien

Victor McLaglen

Flint

John Russell

Chess

Claude Jarman Jr.

Wilson

Paul Fix

Jason Blue

Grant Withers

Sailor

Chuck Hayward

King

Buddy Baer

Reeder

Howard Petrie

Ahab

William Murphy

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