Il mare dei vascelli perduti

The films with John Derek are not many but they are always enjoyable for his very sensitive acting, usually in parts where he gets into trouble and has to work hard to get out of it, if he is not executed or dies on the way. This film is mainly interesting for its documentary parts. The film begins with the Titanic disaster and ends with another disaster of same kind, a Norwegian passenger ship running full speed into an iceberg and getting stuck there in the fog. John Derek is part of an Arctic Coast Guard patrol, founded after the Titanic disaster just for the purpose of avoiding further accidents of that kind, and there are amazing sequences of the rescue team at work. The story is very ordinary, but the Arctic scenery is well worth wasting a film on. Walter Brennan plays the adoptive father after John Derek lost his own father in a failed rescue operation. It's an adventure film based on reality.