Plymouth Adventure

Plymouth Adventure is a 1952 Technicolor drama film with an ensemble cast starring Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson and Leo Genn, made by MetroGoldwynMayer, directed by Clarence Brown, and produced by Dore Schary. The screenplay was adapted by Helen Deutsch from the novel The Plymouth Adventure by Ernest Gbler. The supporting cast includes Barry Jones, Dawn Addams, Lloyd Bridges and John Dehner.

The film tells a fictionalized version of the Pilgrims voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to North America aboard the Mayflower. During the long sea voyage, Capt. Christopher Jones Spencer Tracy falls in love with Dorothy Bradford Gene Tierney, the wife of William Bradford Leo Genn. The love triangle is resolved in a tragic way at the films conclusion. Ships carpenter John Alden Van Johnson said to be the first person to set foot on Plymouth Rock in 1620catches the eye of Priscilla Mullins Dawn Addams, one of the young Pilgrims following William Bradford. Alden ultimately wins Priscilla in another, if subtler, triangle with Miles Standish Noel Drayton. Lloyd Bridges provides comic relief as the firstmate Coppin, and child star Tommy Ivo gives a touching performance as young William Button, the only passenger to die on the actual voyage across the stormswept Atlantic, who, according to this film, wanted to be the first to sight land and to become a king in the New World. Im going to be the first to see land. Keep me eye peeled, I will. Then Ill be the first. Itll be like the Garden of Eden and Im going to be the first to see it.According to MGM records the film earned 1,909,000 in the US and Canada and 1,116,000 elsewhere, but because of its high cost ended up incurring a loss of 1,856,000. ........

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