White Squall (film)
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| Directed by | Ridley Scott |
| Produced by | Mimi Polk Gitlin Rocky Lang |
| Written by | Charles Gieg Jr. and Felix Sutton (book The Last Voyage of the Albatross) Todd Robinson (screenplay) |
| Starring | Jeff Bridges John Savage Ryan Phillippe Scott Wolf Balthazar Getty Jeremy Sisto |
| Music by | Jeff Rona |
| Cinematography | Hugh Johnson |
| Editing by | Gerry Hambling |
| Distributed by | Hollywood Pictures |
| Release date(s) | February 2, 1996 |
| Running time | 129 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $38,000,000 |
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White Squall is a 1996 movie directed by Ridley Scott, starring Jeff Bridges and John Savage. The film co-starred Scott Wolf and Ryan Phillippe.
The plot is based on the fate of the schooner Albatross, which sank on 2 May 1961, allegedly because of a white squall. The film relates the ill fated summer school sailing trip led by Dr. Christopher B. Sheldon (Jeff Bridges), whom the boys call "Skipper". In the film four people aboard the ship perish, whereas in reality six people died in the incident.
Dr. Sheldon created the sailor's creed, "Where we go one, we go all!" which epitomizes the bond of all sailors as well as people of the world, "We're all in the same boat!"
In 1932, the German training vessel Segelschulschiff Niobe had suffered a similar fate, killing 69.
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