Plymouth Adventure

Plymouth Adventure is a 1952 drama film with an ensemble cast starring Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson and Leo Genn, made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Clarence Brown, and produced by Dore Schary. The screenplay was adapted by Helen Deutsch from the novel The Plymouth Adventure by Ernest Gébler. The supporting cast includes Barry Jones, Dawn Addams, Lloyd Bridges and John Dehner. The film is notable as being the last film directed by veteran director Clarence Brown. 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 falls in love with Dorothy Bradford , the wife of William Bradford . The love triangle is resolved in a tragic way at the film's conclusion. Lloyd Bridges provides comic relief as the first-mate 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 storm-swept Atlantic, who, according to this film, wanted to be the first to sight land and to become a king in the New World.
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