• Director: Clarence Brown
  • Release Year: 1952
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English

Plymouth Adventure

Description

Religious separatist William Bradford leads his group of fundamentalist colonists to the New World, unaware of the fact that the captain of the their ship, the Mayflower, has been paid to land them far north of Virginia, their original goal. To complicate matters, the captain is falling in love with Bradford's wife—who might just return his affections.

Themes

British America and the British West Indies (1607 – 1783), British Empire (1497 – 1997), Legends and mythologies, Religion, Capitalism, Age of Sail, Nationalism, Religious movements, Religious persecution, Christianity, Protestantism, Immigration, Pilgrims, Utopias, Fundamentalism, Colonialism, New World