© Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.; 8Apr46; MP427.
DOWN TO EARTH. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1947. 101 min., sd., color, 35mm. With three characters from "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" a motion picture based on Harry Segall's drama "Heaven Can Wait."
Credits: Producer, Don Hartman; director, Alexander Hall; original screenplay, Edwin Blum, Don Hartman; music director, M. W. Stoloff; film editor, Viola Lawrence.
Cast: Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks, James Gleason, Edward Everett Horton.
© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 17Jul47; LP1089.
DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1949. 120 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. An adaptation of the 1922 motion picture of the same title.
Summary: A story of adventure on a New Bedford whaling ship in 1887. Shipped as a cabin boy, the captain's school-aged grandson learns the traditions and disciplines of seafaring life under the sympathetic tutelage of the young first mate and the harsh command of the captain.
Credits: Producer, Louis D. Lighton; director, Henry Hathaway; story, Sy Bartlett; screenplay, John Lee Mahin, Sy Bartlett; music director, Alfred Newman; film editor, Dorothy Spencer.
Cast: Richard Widmark, Lionel Barrymore, Dean Stockwell, Cecil Kellaway, Gene Lockhart.
© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 16Feb49; LP2443.