Classic Movies in the Afternoon

2:00 pm in the Library Auditorium
Free admission
Doors will open 15 minutes before the performance.

 

Sea
Adventures

 

September 14 - Captain Blood (1935)
An enslaved doctor and his comrades in chains escape and become pirates of the Robin Hood variety. Errol Flynn, Olivia De Haviland (2 hours) 
 

September 28 – China Seas (1935)
Rugged Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo, a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries. Both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancée are aboard. Clark Gable, Jean Gable. (1 hour 27 minutes)
 

October 12 – Treasure Island (1934)
The story of Jim Hawkins' journey across the high seas and his battle of wits with Long John Silver in search of buried treasure. Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper (1 hour 43 minutes) 
 

October 26 - Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
First mate Fletcher Christian and tyrannical captain Bligh powerfully clash in this vigorous retelling of a true historic incident about a British ship commandeered from its brutal master. Clark Gable (2 hours 13 Minutes) 
 

November 9 - Passage to Marseille (1944)
A French vessel picks up five ex-convicts in a canoe. They have escaped to help France resist German occupation. Soon there is a clash of wills between the men and the ship's Nazi sympathizer. Humphrey Bogard (1 hour 49 minutes) 
 

November 23 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
A 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine. Kirk Douglas (2 hour 7 min) 


December 14 - Moby Dick (1956)
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him. Gregory Peck, Orson Welles (1 hour 55 minutes)  

 



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