A High Wind in Jamaica

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A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)

NR 06/16/1965 (US) Adventure, Drama 1h 43m

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Piracy and High Adventure on the High Seas!

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In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.

Alexander Mackendrick

Director
Richard Hughes

Novel
Stanley Mann

Screenplay
Ronald Harwood

Screenplay
Denis Cannan

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Anthony Quinn

Chavez
James Coburn

Zac
Deborah Baxter

Emily Thornton
Gert Fröbe

Dutch Captain
Dennis Price

Mathias
Lila Kedrova

Rosa
Nigel Davenport

Mr. Thornton
Isabel Dean

Alice Thornton
Kenneth J. Warren

Capt. Marpole
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A High Wind in Jamaica is directed by Alexander Mackendrick and adapted to screenplay jointly by Stanley Mann, Ronald Harwood & Denis Cannan, from the Richard Hughes novel of the same name. It stars Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Deborah Baxter, Lila Kedrova, Martin Amis, Dennis Price and Nigel Davenport. Music is by Larry Adler, with the song High on a Gallows Tree song by Mike LeRoy, and cinematography is by Douglas Slocombe. Out of 20th Century Fox it's a DeLuxe Color/CinemaScope production.

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