- Windjammer (film)
Infobox Film
name = Windjammer
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caption = The Christian Radich,
the ship featured in the film.
director = Bill Colleran
Louis De Rochemont III
producer =Louis de Rochemont
writer =James L. Shute
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released = 1958
runtime = 127 min.
country = U.S.
language = English
budget =
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imdb_id = 0052397The 1958 film "Windjammer" recorded an actual voyage of the Norwegian sailWindjammer training ship Christian Radich. It was the first movie to be shot in "Cinemiracle " with 7-track stereophonic sound and gave the viewers a panoramic image of the 17,500 nautical mile voyage. The motion picture was produced byLouis de Rochemont .The ship and its Norwegian crew were filmed while sailing from
Oslo , across theAtlantic to theCaribbean , toNew York City , Portsmouth in New Hampshire, and then back home to Oslo. The movie featured a score byMorton Gould , with additional musical performances by cellistPablo Casals andArthur Fiedler conducting theBoston Pops Orchestra .The film also features a meeting with the German "
Pamir (ship) ", which sank in a hurricane in September 1957.The world-premiere was at
Grauman's Chinese Theatre , Hollywood onApril 8 ,1958 and the movie ran for 36 weeks. The film was also released at selected cinemas in America, Canada, and Europe that were specially equipped to project the movie on a wide screen. It was particularly popular in the Scandinavian nations.Cast
*Niels Arntsen, First officer
*Pablo Casals , Himself
*Arthur Fiedler , Himself
*Gunnulv Hauge, Doctor
*Nils Hermansen, Chief engineer
*Yngvar Kjelstrup, Captain
*Sven Erik Libaek, Cadet #35
*Harald Tusberg , Cadet #32External links
* [http://www.radich.no/eng/pgs/filmklipp.html Clips from the film]
* [http://www.wittkowsky.net/windjammer/index2.htm Good site with extensive coverage of the movie]
*imdb title|id=0052397|title=Windjammer
* [http://www.in70mm.com/newsletter/2001/66/windjammer/credits.htm Windjammer cast and credits]
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