Fair Wind to Java
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“ADVENTURE...SPECTACLE...SAVAGE LOVE!”
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
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Cast
23 people
Fred MacMurray
Captain Boll
Known for
Double Indemnity
The Apartment
Vera Ralston
Kim Kim
Known for
The Fighting Kentuckian
Robert Douglas
Saint Ebenezer / Pulo Besar
Known for
The Flame and the Arrow
The Fountainhead
Victor McLaglen
O'Brien
Known for
The Quiet Man
The Informer
John Russell
Flint
Known for
Rio Bravo
Pale Rider
Claude Jarman Jr.
Chess
Known for
Rio Grande
The Yearling
Paul Fix
Wilson
Known for
To Kill a Mockingbird
Zabriskie Point
Grant Withers
Jason Blue
Known for
Rio Grande
My Darling Clementine
Chuck Hayward
Sailor
Known for
The Big Country
The Horse Soldiers
Buddy Baer
King
Known for
Quo Vadis
Jack and the Beanstalk
Howard Petrie
Reeder
Known for
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Bend of the River
William Murphy
Ahab
Known for
A Foreign Affair
Sands of Iwo Jima
Joseph Kane Director · Richard Tregaskis Screenplay Garland Roark Author
Worldwide gross $1.3M · Budget $2M · United States release January 28, 1953
Box office
Budget
$2,000,000
Worldwide gross
$1,300,000
Gross vs. budget
0.7×
Production
Republic Pictures
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Sweden · January 28, 1953
Theatrical
United States · January 28, 1953
Theatrical
Spain
July 11, 1955 · Theatrical
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