Naked Sea

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Naked Sea
Directed byAllen H. Miner
Written byGerald Schnitzer
Produced byAllen H. Miner
CinematographyAllen H. Miner
Edited byAllen H. Miner
Music byLaurindo Almeida
George Fields
Production
company
Theatre Productions
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • December 15, 1954 (1954-12-15) (US)[1]
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Naked Sea is a 1954 American documentary film which follows the journey of the tuna-fishing boat the Star-Kist, on a four-month 15,000 mile journey fishing off the coast of South America.[2] The film was produced, directed, shot and edited by Allen H. Miner. It was narrated by William Conrad, and was originally shot on 16mm film, then blown up to 35mm (with no apparent loss of quality) for theatrical distribution.[3] The fishing boat used its normal crew, captained by Joachim Qualin.

Critical reception

Allmovie wrote, "one of the best of the many feature-length documentaries distributed by RKO Radio in the mid-1950s...As the fishermen go about their appointed tasks, the camera soaks in a lot of local color, including a raging South American hurricane and the eruption of a Galápagos Islands volcano."[4]

References

  1. ^ "Naked Sea: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on April 2, 2014. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
  2. ^ Johnson, Fred. "Stormy Thriller is Vivid Drama of Fishermen". San Francisco Examiner. No. November 19, 1955. Retrieved December 29, 2022.
  3. ^ "Movie Reviews". The New York Times. February 22, 2018 – via NYTimes.com.
  4. ^ "Naked Sea (1955) – Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast – AllMovie". AllMovie.

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