Word: saile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while this attractive little crew is waiting in port for their captain to sober up (it's been two weeks, y'know), so they can sail to Africa and make a killing in uranium, they become entangled with a British tourist and his wife (Jennifer Jones'). These tea-soaked commoners hold illusions of grandeur and romance which fool the intriguers as thoroughly as they fool the Britishers themselves...
...much for the simple part. The captain, who bears an unfortunate resemblance to people's hero of Latin America, decides to hoist sail. The waves toss, the plot thickens, the romances and intrigues intensify, and the British tourist finds his chill growing worse. The cry "Abandon ship!" is the least of everyone's troubles...
...miles to the south. While the island belongs to Brazil, it has been leased to the U.S. as a missile-tracking station, and its 1,000 residents include U.S. civilian technicians and troops. Should the Santa Maria land her 580 passengers there, Captain Henrique Galvão might possibly sail away again before the U.S. and Brazil can untangle the legal complexities of the situation...
...Herb Carlson, the film is a run-of-the-main, sailor-suit farce about a peacetime yachtsman (Lemmon) who joins the Navy during World War II, and to his horror is promptly assigned to command what's known in sailor talk as a "baldheaded schooner." His mission: sail across about 1,000 nautical miles of Jap-infested ocean in a walloping window blind madmanned by a crew that thinks a boom is a noise, makes improper advances to the ship's winch, can't tell gimbals from a department store, and couldn't sail...
...some 600 Jewish internees escape from a British camp on Cyprus, board a rustbucket called Exodus in the harbor at Famagusta, throw all their food overboard and proclaim to the watching world that they will die of starvation or even blow up the ship unless the British let them sail for the promised land...