The Extraordinary Seaman

The Extraordinary Seaman is a 1969 American comedy war film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda and Mickey Rooney.

Plot

A ghostly British seaman (Niven) persuades four members of the American navy to launch an attack on Japanese positions, hoping to redeem his own tattered record from the First World War.

External links

The Extraordinary Seaman at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by John Frankenheimer

1950s	The Young Stranger (1957)

1960s	The Young Savages (1961) All Fall Down (1962) Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Seven Days in May (1964) The Train (1964) Seconds (1966) Grand Prix (1966) The Fixer (1968) The Extraordinary Seaman (1969) The Gypsy Moths (1969)

1970s	I Walk the Line (1970) The Horsemen (1971) The Iceman Cometh (1973) Story of a Love Story (1973) 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974) French Connection II (1975) Black Sunday (1977) Prophecy (1979)

1980s	The Challenge (1982) The Holcroft Covenant (1985) 52 Pick-Up (1986) Dead Bang (1989)

1990s	The Fourth War (1990) Year of the Gun (1991) Against the Wall (1994) The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) George Wallace (1997) Ronin (1998)

2000s	Reindeer Games (2000) Path to War (2002)