High Barbaree.

During World War II, U.S. Navy pilot Alec Brooke (Van Johnson) commands a flying boat, named the "High Barbaree". During a bombing mission against a Japanese submarine, his PBY Catalina is shot down with all but one of his crew killed, but still able to stay afloat, adrift far from Allied territory. Alec shares a series of recollections with fellow survivor, Lt. Joe Moore (Cameron Mitchell) His memories concern his boyhood sweetheart in a small Iowa town, Nancy Fraser, now a Navy nurse serving on a ship in the Pacific theater.

Credits

Cast
Van Johnson, June Allyson

Copyright

Complete catalog record
HIGH BARBAREE. Loew's Inc., c1947. 91 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. An MGM picture. Based on the novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. Credits: Producer, Everett Riskin; director, Jack Conway; screenplay, Anne Morrison Chapin, Whitfield Cook, Cyril Hume; music score, Herbert Stothart; film editor, Conrad A. Nervig. Cast: Van Johnson, June Allyson, Thomas Mitchell, Marilyn Maxwell, Cameron Mitchell. © Loew's Inc.; 6Mar47; LP876.

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
  2. Wikidata · Q2052473 ↗ — country
  3. U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries (renewals, 1970–1978) — copyright