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South Sea Adventures
(1953)
"Zane Grey's famous Sea Yarn related by Billy the Bos'n (Leo Curley)"--from secondary title card.
Author Zane Grey leads a big-game fishing expedition from his home on Santa Catalina Island, off the California coast, to the South Seas.
"Zane Grey, novelist, featured in person on a fishing jaunt into the South Seas on the three-masted schooner Fisherman.... Climax[es] in the landing of a huge fish near the Sandwich islands, weighing more than 1,000 pounds.... One capital incident is the photographing of a group of sperm whales off the Mexican coast, spouting and rolling about in a calm sea. Sportsmen brought a small boat up to within a hundred feet or so of the big creatures, with the lecturer dwelling with good effect on the danger of the situation"--Variety review, Apr. 5, 1932.