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Ship | Plymouth
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Best Effects Special Effects | 1953
Spencer Tracy and Gene Tierney had an affair that lasted for the duration of filming.
Far from being a womanizer, as depicted in the movie, Captain Christopher Jones was a happily-married family man. He and his wife had eight children, one of whom was born in March, 1621, while Jones was still at the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, waiting for favorable weather to return home to England on the "Mayflower."
The movie lost $1.8 million at the box office; the first Spencer Tracy movie to lose money since he joined MGM in 1935.
For once, the colonists are correctly shown building framed houses, and not log cabins as is commonly supposed - the latter were introduced by Swedish settlers along the Delaware in 1638, and did not become popular until the eighteenth century.
The Native Americans living in the area, the Patuxet, were totally wiped out by a series of epidemics between 1616-1619 caught from English fishermen who landed regularly in the area. Luckily for the colonists, they built in the cleared area where the Indian village stood and utilized the cleared farm land that the tribe had abandoned.
"Offscreen chorus in opening titles: During production, the film's composer, Miklos Rozsa, suggested that the main title feature a musical setting around text from the Ainsworth Psalter, written by English Separatist clergyman Henry Ainsworth, first published in Holland in 1612 and brought to America by the Pilgrims in 1620. The sung lyrics in the version used in the film are [singing] Offscreen chorus in opening titles: Confess Jehovah thankfully for He is good, for his Mercie continueth forever. To God of gods confesse do ye because His bountiful mercie continueth forever. Unto the Lord of lords confesse because His merciful kindness continueth forever. To Him that doth, Himself only, things wondrous great, for His Mercie continueth forever; continueth forever."
"Capt. Christopher Jones: I can see through this clean New World talk. Gilbert Winslow: It's possible, Captain Jones, you see no further than the end of your nose. These are honest men. Capt. Christopher Jones: There are no honest men! Gilbert Winslow: There are those that try to be. Capt. Christopher Jones: I've lived long enough in the world to know what men are made of. [Looking out to sea] Capt. Christopher Jones: There's the good of the world, Mr. Winslow - the good clean sea and my ship... my good ship. I put faith in my ship, and she's never failed me. Don't put your faith in men, and you'll never be disappointed. Gilbert Winslow: Perhaps then I's never know friendship and love either! Capt. Christopher Jones: Friendship! Love! [He scoffs and leaves]"
