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Plymouth Adventure, based on an imaginative, fictional account of the Mayflower voyage, tacks on to history an affair between Dorothy Bradford (Gene Tierney) and the skipper. But the movie dehydrates the romance into one embrace, and then forces Mrs. Bradford into a quick suicide. Besides this, the screenplay only diverges from the accepted in its characterization of the captain, a figure not discussed in any of the records...
...Church of England seeking religious freedom in the new world; many were lusty men & women who wore colorful costumes and drank heartily of beer and whisky. Hardhearted Captain Christopher Jones (Spencer Tracy) despised the Pilgrims as hypocrites and fools until he was mellowed by beautiful Dorothy Bradford (Gene Tierney), wife of the colony's second governor, William Bradford (Leo Genn). It was Mrs. Bradford's unrequited love for the skipper, according to Screenwriter Deutsch, that caused her to throw herself overboard...
...board of three rear admirals last week fixed the blame for the mid-Atlantic collision between the aircraft carrier Wasp and the destroyer-minesweeper Hobson last April (TIME, May 5). The convicted culprit was not there to hear the verdict: Commanding Officer William J. Tierney went down with his ship...
Lieut. Commander Tierney, concluded the board, committed a "grave error of judgment" in making a sharp left turn into the path of the onrushing Wasp. This turn was the "sole cause" of the collision, said the admirals, completely absolving the Wasp's Captain Burnham C. McCaffree of all fault. They advanced three theories to explain Tierney's disastrous maneuver: 1) he had become "completely confused," and thought that a sharp left turn would bring him to his correct position; 2) he ordered "left rudder" when he meant to say "right rudder"; 3) he thought...
None of the goings-on aboard the movie's Mayflower is in the popular tradition of the Pilgrim Fathers. The big romance is between Captain Christopher Jones (Spencer Tracy) and the seductive Mrs. Dorothy Bradford (Gene Tierney). wife of the colony's Governor-to-be William Bradford. By the time the ship drops anchor in Plymouth Harbor, Dorothy and the captain have done a little light romancing and she takes the easiest way out of the triangle by drowning herself...