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The Wreck of the Hesperus - Watch Legally and Safely

The Wreck of the Hesperus

Genre: Drama
Countries: United States,
Release Date: February 5, 1948
Year: 1948
Runtime:70 min
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John Macready, a seafaring captain, who has been beached for losing his ship, goes into the salvage-from-wrecked-vessels business with lovable old George Lockhart,and is leading the fight against the erection of a lighthouse that would tend to do damage to the salvage business. Macready’s brother, Angus, dies in a shipwreck, and Macready begins to suspect that his lovable old partner may be causing the ship wrecks by misdirecting the vessels.

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