Adventure action film

Fair Wind to Java (1953): Cast & Plot

Name: Fair Wind to Java
Genre: Adventure, Action
Released: 1953-01-28
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Vera Ralston, John Russell, Robert Douglas, Paul Fix

Fair Wind to Java is a 1953 adventure action film directed by Joseph Kane, starring Fred MacMurray as Captain Boll, Vera Ralston and John Russell. It runs 1 hour 32 minutes.

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Released: January 28, 1953
Runtime: 1h 32m (92 min)
Director: Joseph Kane
Genres: Adventure , Action
Original language: English
Studio: Republic Pictures
After the credits: No No extra scene

The story

What Is Fair Wind to Java About?

The premise of Fair Wind to Java without spoilers. The whole story is in the plot summary further down.

Set in the Dutch East Indies at the close of the nineteenth century, an adventurous American merchant captain hunts a sunken Dutch ship rumored to hold ten thousand diamonds. He faces rival treasure seekers and the looming threat of Krakatoa’s historic eruption, turning the quest into a perilous race against nature.

Fair Wind to Java Themes & Keywords

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1883 eruption of krakatoa
1880s
american
treasure
19th century
java

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Cast & crew

Fair Wind to Java Cast & Characters

Fred MacMurray leads the cast as Captain Boll, with Vera Ralston as Kim Kim and John Russell as Flint. Directed by Joseph Kane; 23 actors are credited in all.

Director Joseph Kane

Fred MacMurray as Captain Boll
Vera Ralston as Kim Kim
John Russell as Flint
Robert Douglas as Saint Ebenezer / Pulo Besar

Also Starring in Fair Wind to Java

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Sujata Rubener Dancer (as Sujata)
Howard Chuman Guard
Mailoa Kalili Guard

Plot

Fair Wind to Java Plot Summary

What happens in Fair Wind to Java from start to finish, spoilers included, with a timeline of 13 key events. The opening is below; the full summary is a 3-minute read.

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In 1883, the Boston company that owns the merchant sailing ship Gerrymander gives her captain, Captain Boll, six months to show a profit in the Netherlands East Indies. Facing both pirates and a Dutch policy that bars foreigners from carrying goods between ports, Boll seeks another path to wealth. On Java, an Indonesian man whose life Boll once saved tells him that native divers have salvaged a fortune in diamonds from the sunken Pieterzoon, and he sends Boll to a Chinese junk captain with a captive, the dancer Kim Kim. She knows where the diamonds lie.

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