Storyline A star-studded cast invigorates this film of a jazz trumpeter (Sammy
Davis Jr.) who experiences both the prejudices of the music industry and
terrible guilt following the traffic accident that killed his family, a
tragedy he feels personally responsible for. Co-stars include several
giants of jazz and popular music: Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Ossie
Davis, and Mel Tormé, as well as Peter Lawford and Cicely Tyson.
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Danger and suspense sail the high seas in this nautical thriller that
some commentators call uncommonly fierce for its time. James Mason
portrays Capt. Edwin Rummill, eager to prove himself after being made a
ship’s captain for the first time in his career. One of his earliest
decisions has a troublesome impact on his freighter’s voyage from New
Zealand – he allows the alluring wife of the ship’s cook to sail with
the otherwise all-male crew. More tensions also take shape. Crewmembers
launch a violent mutiny that will leave many men dead and survivors
adrift in a lifeboat, including one who comes up with a desperate plan
to reboard and retake the ship: Rummill. As the mutineer mastermind,
Broderick Crawford gives a psychotic fervor to his portrayal. And
Dorothy Dandridge, in a type of role then rare for an African-American
actress, turns sexuality into power.
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