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The Wreck of the Mary Deare is a 1959 Metrocolor (in CinemaScope) British-American thriller film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston, and featuring Michael Redgrave, Cecil Parker, Richard Harris and John Le Mesurier.
With Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams. A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
- (3K)
- Adventure, Crime, Drama
- Michael Anderson
- 1959-11-17
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (in the UK published as The Mary Deare) is a 1956 novel written by British author Hammond Innes, which was later adapted as a film starring Gary Cooper released in 1959 by MGM.
- Hammond Innes
- 1956
Heston plays John Sands, a boat salvager who, on a rough English Channel, finds the floating, still-burning wreck of a ship called The Mary Deare. Sands assumes the crew has abandoned ship, and is ready to call it his own.
- Michael Anderson, Robert Saunders
- Gary Cooper
When ship captain John Sands (Charlton Heston) encounters the Mary Deare, an apparently abandoned ship, on the open seas, he hopes to salvage the wreck.
- (23)
- Michael Anderson
- Adventure
- Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, and Michael Redgrave star in this seafaring drama about the skipper of a sunken ship who stands trial for negligence. In the English Channel, John Sands (Heston), captain of a small rescue ship, finds the freighter Mary Deare drifting.
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name. In the English Channel, John Sands (Charlton Heston), from a small rescue ship, finds the freighter Mary Deare drifting.
