Fair Wind to Java

Fair Wind to Java is a 1953 American adventure film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Fred MacMurray, Vera Ralston, Robert Douglas and Victor McLaglen. Filmed in Trucolor with special effects by the Lydecker brothers, it was based on the novel by Garland Roark. Its plot concerns an American sea captain who voyages to search for diamonds on a volcanic island but has to contend with mysteries, pirates and an exploding volcano based on the 1883 eruption on the island of Krakatoa.

Upon contacting the junk captain, Boll discovers that the cargo actually is a woman named Kim Kim who knows the whereabouts of the diamonds. Kim Kim had been a dancer at the palace of the sultan, but the Chinese had taken her as a slave. Boll violates antislavery laws by buying her from the junk captain and smuggles her aboard the Gerrymander. Flint, the Gerrymander s first mate, discovers Kim Kim aboard the ship and finds out that Boll had purchased her he blackmails Boll, threatening to turn Boll in to the Dutch authorities if Boll does not give him half the diamonds when they are found.Posing as the naturalized Dutch citizen Saint Ebenezer, the pirate Pulo Besar also becomes aware that Kim Kim is aboard the Gerrymander. He tips off the authorities. They search the Gerrymander but do not find Kim Kim, who is hiding in a halffilled vat of water. Later, however, the Gerrymander s crew discovers her. Boll insists that they treat her well, but first he has to fight one of his sailors, Reeder, in order to protect her. ........

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