In a message dated 6/11/02 2:38:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, KARENE1@webtv.net writes: > I just got through watching the movie The Plymouth Adventure starring > Spencer Tracy as Captain Jones and Van Johnson as John Alden. For those > of you who have never seen it or who want to record it, it will be shown > again this month on Turner Movie Classics June 17 at 2AM, Eastern time. > > I was a bit disappointed at the major artistic licenses this movie took. > Because of the romantic subplot, it's Bradford who falls overboard, not > John Howland. And although we never see her actually do it, we > understand that Dorothy Bradford jumped overboard because of her torn > love between her husband and Captain Jones. It's also a little funny to > see the obviously painted backdrops in some of the scenes. > > But outside of this silliness, I thought the movie did a good job in > portraying the hardships our ancestors faced while travelling on the > Mayflower. This is a movie I would recommend. Ditto the above recommendation. How much has changed and corrective facts discovered since George F. Willison wrote "Saints and Strangers" in 1945. Regards, Rick Turner "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."---The Declaration of Independence "I love the word 'friends'. It means so much, for we are, and should be, friends for the glory of God and the salvation of the world."---Alice C. Winslow (1856-1927), 1913