• Fair Wind to Java is a 1953 American adventure film in Trucolor from Republic Pictures, produced and directed by Joseph Kane, that stars Fred MacMurray...
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    Empire (1952) – Joe Gray The Sun Shines Bright (1953) – Ashby Corwin Fair Wind to Java (1953) – Flint Jubilee Trail (1954) – Oliver Hale Hell's Outpost (1954)...
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    request for a movie shoot at the lake. The scene from the 1953 movie Fair Wind to Java would have featured, among other things, a smoke-belching volcano...
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    lake to be lying "in a lifeless, treeless, hideous desert... the loneliest place on earth." A scene featuring a volcano in the film Fair Wind to Java (1953)...
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  • widescreen DVD. Krakatoa, East of Java's storyline bears many similarities to that of the 1953 film Fair Wind to Java starring Fred MacMurray, which tells...
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    Vera Ralston (category Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States)
    A Perilous Journey with David Brian and Scott Brady (1953), and Fair Wind to Java with Fred MacMurray (1953). She retired from films in 1958. Reportedly...
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    and film dramas. In the 1953 film Fair Wind to Java, an American sea captain and a pirate leader race one another to recover a fortune in diamonds hidden...
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  • nominated Flame of Barbary Coast (1945) Fair Wind to Java (1953) Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1953) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-1968)...
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    Similar sized eruption in 2022 Fair Wind to Java Krakatit Krakatoa documentary and historical materials Krakatoa, East of Java List of natural disasters by...
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    Victor McLaglen (category British emigrants to the United States)
    Wayne in The Quiet Man (1952). He continued to be in demand as a support actor in action films: Fair Wind to Java (1953) with Fred MacMurray and Prince Valiant...
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    was an infant, his family moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where his father taught music. They relocated within the state to Beaver Dam, his mother's birthplace...
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    Moynihan Big Jim Mclain (1952) as Voice of Chauncey (uncredited) Fair Wind to Java (1953) as Wilson Island in the Sky (1953) as Wally Miller Hondo (1953)...
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    he chose to leave his film career behind. Republic Studios cast him in a couple of B-movies, but discouraged, he moved back to Tennessee to finish college...
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    Wayne secured him a spot in nine of Wayne's films, but later roles dwindled to supporting roles, mainly as villains in B-movies, serials, and television...
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    Gumby's Winter Fun Special (1988) – writing GrimJack #52: Sam & Max in "Fair Wind to Java" (1988) Sam & Max: Freelance Police special (1989) Critters #50: Sam...
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  • Company, Inc. Novel re Texas oil fields. Wake of the Red Witch (1949). Fair Wind to Java (1953). Roark, Garland. Captain Thomas Fenlon: Master Mariner (1958)...
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    Keye Luke (category Chinese emigrants to the United States)
    Congregation (1952) Hong Kong (1952) as Taxicab Driver (uncredited) Fair Wind to Java (1953) as Pidada South Sea Woman (1953) as Japanese Deck Officer (uncredited)...
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    Frank Bullitt Androcles and the Lion (1952) - Gladiator (uncredited) Fair Wind to Java (1953) - Hoppo Two The Glass Wall (1953) - Eddie Hinckley Ma and Pa...
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    Sin How Battle Circus (1953) as Korean prisoner with hand grenade Fair Wind to Java (1953) as Gusti China Venture (1953) as Adm. Amara His Majesty O'Keefe...
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  • Geronimo – America's Cup racing yacht, Wind, 1992 Gerrymander – full-rigged sailing ship in Fair Wind to Java, 1953 Ghost – sealing schooner, The Sea...
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    Stephen Bekassy (category Hungarian emigrants to the United States)
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1944. His American film debut was in A Song to Remember (1945). He appeared in films such as Hell and High Water and Prisoner...
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  • by different publishers, including Comico Comics and Epic Comics. "Fair Wind to Java" was originally published in 1988 as a Munden's Bar story in the pages...
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  • RKO, to whom Russell was under contract, and was not released by that studio until 1952. Republic also made a South Seas adventure Fair Wind to Java (1953)...
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    "Memphis Mafia". He reportedly regarded Hollywood as "an open invitation to party all night long".[citation needed] Played “Lt. Edlridge” on "Gunsmoke"...
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  • Command Timberjack Hell's Outpost The Shanghai Story Jubilee Trail Fair Wind to Java A Perilous Journey Ride the Man Down Montana Belle The WAC from Walla...
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    Robert Douglas (actor) (category English emigrants to the United States)
    Strelsau 1953: Fair Wind to Java (dir. Joseph Kane) - Saint Ebenezer / Pulo Besar 1953: The Desert Rats (dir. Robert Wise) - General 1953: Flight to Tangier...
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    Massachusetts on November 22, 1906. When Howard was three years old his family moved to Concord. The Petries later lived in Arlington and then Somerville, where Petrie...
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  • 1953 in film (category Articles to be expanded from July 2024)
    John Sturges, starring William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe Fair Wind to Java, starring Fred MacMurray and Vera Ralston The Farmer Takes a Wife...
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  • American film distribution label owned by Paramount Global that previously used to be an independent film production and distribution company with studio facilities...
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  • Sujata and Asoka (category Indian emigrants to the United States)
    dancers specialising in performing Indian, Tibetan and various Oriental dances to Western audiences. They were Sujata, (3 February 1918 in Bombay, British Raj...
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