The Wreck of the Mary Deare

In the English Channel John Sands, captain of a small rescue ship, finds the freighter Mary Deare drifting. Although there’s only a little fire, the whole crew seems to have left the ship except for officer Gerald Patch who sends him away. It seems to be a case of insurance fraud aboard the ship., Suspenseful drama based on the novel by Hammond Innes. The captain of a sunken ship attempts to prove that the owners and crew of the vessel are involved in an insurance fraud. However, he is shocked to find himself implicated in the disaster. In a bid to clear his name, the captain teams up with the rugged skipper of a salvage vessel on a risky dive to the wreck of his ship., The special effects are the real star of this seaborne adventure-mystery, with Cooper and Heston as the mariners caught up in a dirty salvage scam., Talented special effects and adventure director Michael Anderson (Around the World in 80 Days, 1956) keeps the suspense going in this drama about the wreck of the Mary Deare. John Sands (Charleton Heston) is the captain of a salvage ship that is almost rammed by the apparently abandoned Mary Deare. Sands boards the ship in search of plunder but as it is tossed on the high seas, he discovers a half-crazed captain aboard (Gary Cooper). The captain of the Mary Deare, Gideon Patch, tells Sands his story and in the end, the ship is scuttled and sinks. While Sands believes the story, the court does not believe it and Captain Patch is devastated. Determined to prove his innocence, the two captains dive down to the sunken Mary Deare to dredge up the evidence they need — building up to a slam-bang climax., A salvage-ship captain attempts to help prove that a skipper is not guilty of negligence in the mysterious scuttling and sinking of his vessel., Seaborne adventure-mystery, with Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston as the mariners caught up in a dirty salvage scam., The special effects are the real star of this seaborne adventure-mystery, with Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston as the mariners caught up in a dirty salvage scam.