The Yankee Clipper
A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
William Boyd
Hal Winslow
Elinor Fair
Jocelyn Huntington
Frank Coghlan Jr.
Mickey
John Miljan
Paul de Vigny
Walter Long
Portuguese Joe
Louis Payne
Lord Huntington
Burr McIntosh
Thomas Winslow
George Ovey
Alf
William Blaisdell
Ike
A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
As the Second World War breaks out, German freighter captain Karl Ehrlich is about to leave Sydney, Australia with his vessel, the Ergenstrasse. Ehrlich, an anti-Nazi but proud German, hopes to outrun or out-maneuver the British warship pursuing him. Aboard his vessel is Elsa Keller, a woman Ehrlich has been ordered to return to Germany safely along with whatever secrets she carries. When Ehrlich's fiercely Nazi chief officer Kirchner commits an atrocity, the British pursuit becomes deadly.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
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Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
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