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Burning and sinking ship in film

posted 15 years ago by bobo-29
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The supposedly sinking sailing ship shown in this film 'Twilight for the Gods' was owned by Ernest K Gann (who wrote the screenplay). It was later sold and became a sailing school ship and in May 1961 was lost in a white squall west of the Dry Tortugas. This sinking with loss of life of some of the student crew was the basis for the 1996 film 'White Squall', starring Jeff Bridges, which depicted the 1961 tragedy at sea.

[–] grumpy736-1 11 years ago

Thanks for that posting about the sinking sailing ship. I saw both Twilight of the Gods and White Squall. I called up this site to check out what happens to Cyd Charisse at the end -- it was suspense story of frantic bailing water out of the hold -- and I saw it (?) 50 years ago. I would like to see it again on TV.

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