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
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imdb_id = 0052397The 1958 film "Windjammer" recorded an actual voyage of the Norwegian sail Windjammer 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 by Louis de Rochemont.

The ship and its Norwegian crew were filmed while sailing from Oslo, across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, to New York City, Portsmouth in New Hampshire, and then back home to Oslo. The movie featured a score by Morton Gould, with additional musical performances by cellist Pablo Casals and Arthur Fiedler conducting the Boston 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 on April 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 #32

External 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]