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On July 2, Heyerdahl writes about an encounter with a rogue wave; in his book he describes a "Three Sister" phenomenon: "During a night-shift with quiet seas appears an 'abnormal huge wave' followed by two more waves. The raft is being swept up and down and is covered in water." After the three waves he describes the sea as quiet as before. [21 ...
The film is the dramatized story of Thor Heyerdahl and his Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947.. While the prevailing theories of the time held that Polynesia had been settled by peoples originating from Asia, Heyerdahl, an experimental ethnographer and adventurer, sets out to prove his theory that people from South America settled the islands in pre-Columbian times.
The George Raft Story is a 1961 American biographical film directed by Joseph M. Newman that stars Ray Danton as Hollywood film star George Raft.The picture was retitled Spin of a Coin for release in the United Kingdom, a reference to Raft's character's nickel-flipping trick in Scarface (1932), the film that launched his career as an actor known for portraying gangsters.
Hero's Island: United States Leslie Stevens: James Mason, Neville Brand, Kate Manx: Set in 1718 at the Outer Banks of North Carolina Julius Caesar Against the Pirates: Italy Sergio Grieco: Gustavo Rojo, Abbe Lane, Gordon Mitchell: An adventure of the young Julius Caesar, based on a true story. Set in the Mediterranean Sea in the years 75 BC and ...
George Raft (née Ranft; September 26, 1901 [1] [2] [3] – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s.
The raft had a complement of eleven people: five men and six women. It left Las Palmas, Spain, on 12 May 1973 and took 101 days to drift across the Atlantic Ocean and reach Cozumel, Mexico, with a single stopover in Barbados. Frequently dubbed the "Sex Raft" by the media, [3] it was the subject of a 2018 documentary film The Raft, by Marcus ...
Isle of Destiny (aka Trouble Over the Pacific) is a 1940 American comedy adventure film set in the South Seas.The film was directed by Elmer Clifton and originally produced by Franklyn Warner for Grand National Pictures in 1939.
The Man from Cairo is a 1953 British/Italian/American international coproduction film noir starring George Raft.Released in Italy as Italian: Dramma nella Kasbah/Avventura ad Algeri, it also went under the alternative English titles Cairo Incident, Adventure in Algiers and Secrets of the Casbah.