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...Navy in World War I. He startled fellow businessmen by expanding instead of contracting the family business (Chatham blankets) during the Depression, a gamble which eventually made him a millionaire. During World War II he wangled a demotion-from commander to lieutenant commander-to get into combat on a cruiser in the Southwest Pacific...
...bringing supplies to cut-off units or rescuing the wounded from isolated spots that could not have been reached any other way. One of the men flying the 'copters is Lieut, (j.g.) Charles Jones, a 28-year-old Kansan. Not long ago Lieut. Jones took off from the cruiser Rochester to find and rescue a Corsair fighter pilot who had been shot down over North Korea. The Navy does not consider it safe to use helicopters for night flying and Jones knew it would be dark before he could get back, but he volunteered to go on the mission...
This picture is the story of a young war veteran whose only means of supporting his family is a large, ocean-going cabin cruiser. By renting the boat, or fishing from it, he earns a living. John Garfield plays this part, while Patricia Neal portrays his necessarily overworked wife. Saying relatively little, and then only in the short and sometimes near-obscene Hemingway phrases, Garfield gives one of his best performances. Very soon after the opening he has so well accustomed himself and his audience to the character and personality called for by the script that the picture...
...enigma to most of his staff, which has long been baffled by the fact that he can, by turn, be boastful, humble, hard as nails and sob-sister soft. Although he spends six months of the year in his Miami home or in the Caribbean aboard his 71 -ft. cruiser, the High Tide, he is never out of touch with the paper, uses his ship-to-shore phone when necessary...
Harry Morgan (John Garfield), a rough & ready veteran of PT boats, scrounges a living for his wife (Phyllis Thaxter) and two daughters by chartering his cruiser for fishing trips. Apart from his boat (which is not paid up) and a talent for spotting marlin half a mile off, he has nothing "to peddle but guts." When a client runs out on his bill, leaving Morgan broke in a Mexican port, he starts peddling guts...