Paramount eventually bought the rights off Small in , including a script Seton I Miller had written for the producer in ; Miller had since become a writer and producer at Paramount.
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Alan Ladd was announced as star. In March it was announced Ladd would be re-inducted into the army but that this would be delayed so he could make Mast. Brian Donlevy was originally going to play the sadistic captain but was given the role of Dana instead.
Howard da Silva, who had just achieved fame playing Judd in Oklahoma! Mexican film star Esther Fernandez had been signed to Paramount for two years without making a film. John Farrow watched some test footage she made and was impressed; she was brought back to play the female lead. Due to war time restrictions - notably lack of transport - Paramount had endured many logistical difficulties filming the pirate movie Frenchman's Creek on location. This prompted them to decide to shoot Two Years Before the Mast entirely within the confines of the studio.
Seascapes and soundscapes from Paramount's Souls at Sea were re-used.
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The film heavily dramatised the novel but attempted to be faithful. Filming began in May and took 69 days. May cost a hundred thousand. Depends on how long it takes those chins to sprout. But meantime, we can be shooting storms and Miss Fernandez. Alan Ladd injured his back during filming and had to miss a week of shooting.
The movie was shot on three studio sound stages.
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In during the Civil War , it was captured by the Confederate commerce raider Alabama , the crew were forced into the boats, and the ship was destroyed. Dana's father first approached Harper and Brothers , as they were his publishers, though the Danas rejected the original offer for 10 percent in royalties after the first 1, sold. Two Years Before the Mast was finally published in September in two versions, [3] without credit to Dana on the title page. In , Dana's son, Richard Henry Dana III, added an introduction detailing the "subsequent story and fate of the vessels, and of some of the persons with whom the reader is made acquainted.
Two Years Before the Mast was "conceived as a protest and written to improve the lot of the common sailor". During a part of this day we were hove to, but the rest of the time were driving on, under close-reefed sails, with a heavy sea, a strong gale, and frequent squalls of hail and snow. Melville, born in , was exactly four years Dana's junior, and returned from his first tour as a seaman when Two Years Before the Mast was first published in And there lay, floating in the ocean, several miles off, an immense, irregular mass, its top and points covered with snow, and its centre of a deep indigo color….
As far as the eye could reach, the sea in every direction was of a deep blue color, the waves running high and fresh, and sparkling in the light, and in the midst lay this immense mountain-island, its cavities and valleys thrown into deep shade, and its points and pinnacles glittering in the sun…. But no description can give any idea of the strangeness, splendor, and, really, the sublimity, of the sight. Its great size… its slow motion, as its base rose and sank in the water, and its high points nodded against the clouds; the dashing of the waves upon it, which, breaking high with foam, lined its base with a white crust; and the thundering sound of the cracking of the mass, and the breaking and tumbling down of huge pieces; together with its nearness and approach, which added a slight element of fear,—all combined to give to it the character of true sublimity.
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He was tall; but you only perceived it when he was standing by the side of others, for the great breadth of his shoulders and chest made him appear but little above the middle height. His cheeks were of a handsome brown; his teeth brilliantly white; and his hair, of a raven black, waved in loose curls all over his head, and fine, open forehead; and his eyes he might have sold to a duchess at the price of diamonds, for their brilliancy…Take him with his well-varnished black tarpaulin stuck upon the back of his head; his long locks coming down almost into his eyes; his white duck trousers and shirt; blue jacket; and black kerchief, tied loosely round his neck; and he was a fine specimen of manly beauty… His strength must have been great, and he had the sight of a vulture.
It is strange that one should be so minute in the description of an unknown, outcast sailor, whom one may never see again, and whom no one may care to hear about; but so it is. Some people we see under no remarkable circumstances, but whom, for some reason or other, we never forget. He called himself Bill Jackson….
Writes Morris, "Dana is something more of a poet than either he or his contemporaries were aware; and that his ignorance of this gift was a loss to him as well as to us.
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With the onset of the California Gold Rush , Dana's book was one of the few books in existence that described California, adding greatly to the book's readership as well as Dana's renown and legacy. When he returned to San Francisco in he was treated as a minor celebrity. To this day the book is regarded as a valuable historical resource describing s California.
The geographic headland he wrote of, and the adjacent city, are named Dana Point for him.
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There are schools named for him in Southern California , including:. A film adaptation was released in In Chapter 7 of his Is Shakespeare Dead? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. I wondered at his memory, which enabled him to recite so beautifully a long prose passage, so much more difficult than verse. Several of those present, with whom the book was a favorite, were so glad to hear from me that it was as true as interesting, for they had regarded it as partly a work of imagination.
In writing the book Mr. Dana had a motive which inspired him to put into it his very best. The night after the flogging of his two fellow-sailors off San Pedro, California, Mr. Dana, lying in his berth, "vowed that, if God should ever give me the means, I would do something to redress the grievances and relieve the sufferings of that class of beings with whom my lot has been so long cast. While at sea he made entries almost daily in a pocket notebook and at leisure hours wrote these out fully. This full account of his voyage was lost with his trunk containing sailors' clothes and all souvenirs and presents for family and friends by the carelessness of a relative who took charge of his things at the wharf when he landed in Boston in Later, while in the Law School, Mr.
Dana re-wrote this account from the notebook, which, fortunately, he had not entrusted to the lost trunk. This account he read to his father and Washington Allston, artist and poet, his uncle by marriage.
Both advised its publication and the manuscript was sent to William Cullen Bryant, who had then moved to New York. Bryant, after looking it over, took it to a prominent publisher of his city, as the publishers at that time most able to give the book a large sale. They offered to buy the book outright but refused the author any share in the profits. The firm had submitted the manuscript to Alonzo Potter, afterwards Bishop of Pennsylvania, then acting as one of their readers. Bishop Potter, meeting Dana in England years later, told him most emphatically that he had advised the purchase at any price necessary to secure it.