Krakatoa, East of Java
Krakatoa, East of Java is a 1969 American disaster film starring Maximilian Schell and Brian Keith. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. During the 1970s, the film was rereleased under the title Volcano.
In 1883, the volcano on the island of Krakatoa in the Netherlands East Indies begins to erupt, terrorizing the children at a mission school in Palembang on nearby Sumatra. Meanwhile, across the Sunda Strait at her home port of Anjer on the west coast of Java, the steamer Batavia Queen, under the command of Captain Chris Hanson Maximilian Schell, takes aboard passengers and cargo, including a diving bell and a balloon. Among the passengers coming aboard are Douglas Rigby John Leyton, the designer, owner, and operator of the diving bell Giovanni Borghese Rossano Brazzi and his son Leoncavallo Sal Mineo, who own and operate the balloon as The Flying Borgheses Harry Connerly Brian Keith, a diver Connerly s mistress Charley Adams Barbara Werle, who is a professional soprano and former saloon hostess four female Japanese pearl divers led by Toshi Jacqui Chan and Laura Travis Diane Baker, a married woman who had an extramarital affair with Hanson in Batavia.Laura was married to an abusive man with whom she had a son named Peter. Her husband did not want the marriage but also threatened to take Peter away from her if she asked for a divorce. Wanting to be with Hanson, she had asked for a divorce anyway, and her husband had left her, taking both Peter and a fortune in pearls with him aboard the steamer Arianna. The Arianna had sunk off Krakatoa during a storm, and a guiltridden Laura, fearing that Peter had died aboard the Arianna and blaming herself for his death, had spent a year in a mental institution before coming aboard the Batavia Queen. ........
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