A Mariner's Filmography

From 1930 to 2020 Seafaring, Historical, Naval, Maritime Cinema

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de Lawrence P. Treadwell Jr.

Type: Encyclopedias
Sujet: On Films > Film selections
Mots Clés: sea
Année d'édition: 2020
Editeur: Xlibris
Langue: anglais

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Paperback • 108 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-6641-3198-9

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Description de l'ouvrage:
The book is a UNIQUE movie film guide of seagoing and related films from 1930 to 2020. Included are four hundred Navy, Marine, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine movies of all genres - historical, classic, adventure, drama, comedy, musical, wartime productions from Hollywood and the U.K. Each film listed has its title alphabetically in order with the year distributed and the Distributor/Producer. Next are the Director, the Cast, and a Playbook. Films portray all types of ships big and small - liners, warships, submarines, freighters, yachts, sail, craft, fishing types, cutters. "ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR!" Pirates, NAVY Seals, U-boats, shipwrecks, mutiny, sea battles, lifeboats, carriers, whalers, deserted islands: all and more are shown in these films, mostly in times past. The reference book is a must for all kinds of sailors and sea lovers to recall their favorites, and to learn about new movies they missed.

À propos de l'auteur :
Lawrence Treadwell was born in Newport, R.I. in 1928, and grew up in Norfolk, Virginia. From a Naval family he joined the Navy in 1945 and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1951. As a surface officer he served in the Battleship Missouri, destroyers cruisers, and the Service Force. Larry commanded three ships in his career with service in Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon Operation, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Shore duty was in Washington, Navy Post Graduate School, Monterey, California, and in NATO. Larry retired as a Captain in 1980 and lived in Mathews, Virginia with his wife, Ellen, until she died in 1994. Following a few years in Florida, Larry returned to Mathews, remarried, to Elsie Ward Treadwell. In 2001 McFarland Publisher of Jefferson, N.C. published his booK, THE BULLDOG DRUMMOND ENCYCLOPEDIA, a unique book about the popular British "Detective" after World War I, including his many films. Herman Cyril McNeile "SAPPER" was Drummond's creator. Larry lives in Irvington since Elsie passed away in 2014, Virginia where he worked on his book through the Pandemic.

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