starring
David Niven , Faye Dunaway Alan Alda , Mickey Rooney
Four American sailors, cast adrift in a lifeboat during a wartime exercise in the Pacific, are washed up on an island somewhere in the Philippines. Here they encounter Commander Finchhaven and his worn relic of a ship, the Curmudgeon. Finchhaven, it transpires, is a very extraordinary seaman indeed.
Director JOHN FRANKENHEIMER Films: page 8