The Extraordinary Seaman 1969
The film opens with a tongue‑in‑cheek dedication thanking figures such as Adolf Hitler, David Niven, Joseph Stalin, Faye Dunaway, Tojo, Mickey Rooney, Jack Carter, Alan Alda, John Frankenheimer and the millions of Nazis, Japanese and Americans who made it possible. Marooned sailors then stumble upon a World War II vessel whose late captain still haunts its decks, blending dark humor with wartime intrigue.
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Faye Dunaway
Jennifer Winslow
Mickey Rooney
Cook 3 / C W.J. Oglethorpe
Barry Kelley
Admiral Barnwell
Olivia de Havilland
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gregory Peck
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
David Niven
Lt. Commander John Finchhaven, R.N.
Errol Flynn
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Vivien Leigh
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alan Alda
Lt. J / G Morton Krim
Dorothy Lamour
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jack Carter
Gunner's Mate Orville Toole
Manu Tupou
Seaman 1 / C Lightfoot Star
Robert Taylor
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Van Johnson
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ann Sheridan
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Douglas MacArthur
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hideki Tojo
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charles de Gaulle
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jerry Fujikawa
Admiral Shimagoshi
John Cochran
Dyak
Bess Truman
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Juano Hernández
Ali Shar
Leonard O. Smith
Dyak
Richard Guizon
Dyak
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Towards the end of World War II four United States Navy sailors—the accountant Lieutenant Krim, the cook Oglethorpe, the gunner’s mate Toole, and the Cheyenne seaman Lightfoot—are separated from their ship and are marooned on an island in the Philippines. They discover the British Royal Navy officer, Commander Finchhaven, aboard the wreck of the gunboat HMS Curmudgeon. Finchhaven persuades them to launch an attack on Japanese positions, hoping to redeem the family honor and his own tattered record from the First World War. The sailors repair the ship with help from garage owner Jennifer Winslow. After launching the ship, Finchhaven confesses he is a ghost condemned to sail the seas forever after falling down drunk before his first battle in the Great War. With his typical luck he actually succeeds in sinking an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser — after it had officially surrendered to the US Navy. As a result, he is seen again consigned to sailing his ship forever, this time in a children’s amusement park lake, to await another war for a chance at redemption.
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