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Down to the Sea in Ships

Year:

1949

Duration:

120 min

Genres:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Family

IMDB rate:

7.4

Director:

Henry Hathaway

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1949-04-11

Filming Locations: 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Dean Stockwell

Richard Widmark

First Mate Dan Lunceford

Lionel Barrymore

Capt. Bering Joy

Cecil Kellaway

Slush Tubbs

Gene Lockhart

Andrew L. Bush

Berry Kroeger

Manchester

John McIntire

Thatch

Harry Morgan

Britton (as Henry Morgan)

Harry Davenport

Benjamin Harris

Paul Harvey

Capt. John Briggs

Jay C. Flippen

Luke Sewell

Ruth Donnelly

New Bedford Neighbor (scenes deleted)

Hubert E. Flanagan

Capt. Rumley (scenes deleted)

Connie Marshall

New Bedford Neighbor (scenes deleted)

Dorothy Adams

Miss Hopkins (uncredited)

Robert Adler

Crew Member (uncredited)

Harry Carter

Crew Member (uncredited)

Eddie Das

Crew Member (uncredited)

Bobby Dillon

Curley - Crew Member

James Dime

Crew Member (uncredited)

Jimmy Hawkins

Boy (uncredited)

Arthur Hohl

Blair (uncredited)

Fuzzy Knight

Lern Sykes (uncredited)

John Northpole

Crew Member (uncredited)

Peter Seal

Crew Member (uncredited)

Minerva Urecal

Mother (uncredited)

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Trivia

"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 30, 1951 with Lionel Barrymore and Richard Widmark reprising their film roles.

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Ships cooks were often nicknamed "Slush" or Slushy". The term comes from the fact that they had to feed the crew with salt pork or salt beef. The meat would be put into a pot and boiled and the grease that came to the surface was called "slush" and was skimmed off and saved. The sailors often smeared it on ships biscuit in place of butter. Any excess at the end of the voyage was sold to soap makers or candle makers and the proceeds were used to buy things for the ship, hence the term "Slush Fund".