Captain Jack (film)

Captain Jack is a 1999 British comedy film produced by John Goldschmidt and written by Jack Rosenthal. The cast includes Bob Hoskins, Sadie Frost, Gemma Jones, Anna Massey, Peter McDonald, Maureen Lipman and Michele Dotrice. The film was produced by Goldschmidt's own company Viva Films Ltd. and was distributed on video by Koch Vision.

Plot

Captain Jack stars Bob Hoskins as a rebellious captain of a small Whitby boat who is determined to flout petty maritime bureaucracy. Officials declare his boat unsafe for a planned voyage to the Arctic, but Jack is determined to set sail and to place a plaque there in commemoration of his seafaring hero. With his motley crew, Captain Jack succeeds in making his voyage despite an international search for his boat by maritime authorities.

Inspiration

The film is based on a true life incident involving a Whitby man, Jack Lammiman, who declared that his ship was seaworthy but was being hampered from sailing by maritime rules.^[1] As in the film, he slipped out of the harbour unseen in 1991. His crew included a vicar, a lady pensioner and 62-year-old Royal Navy veteran named Hugh Taff Roberts. Lammiman sailed his ship, Helga Maria, to the Arctic and fulfilled his wish to place a memorial plaque on Jan Mayen Island to honour Whitby whaling Captain, William Scoresby (see, William Scoresby his son). During the voyage he evade an international search by the naval authorities using a number of techniques which including painting his boat a different colour. Lammiman arrived back at his home port of Whitby to a hero's welcome, a court appearance, a fine and eventually (after non-payment of his fine) four days in jail.^[2]

References

^ Liptrot, Kate (14 April 2015). "Whitby's arctic adventurer Jack Lammiman dies, aged 75". Whitby Gazette. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
^ Dunn, Peter (3 April 1993). "Jack's big trip: Two summers ago the Helga Maria and her motley crew set sail for the Arctic Circle. What started as a romantic mission ended in mutiny, prison, and million-pound movie deals struck in Whitby hotel rooms". The Independent. Retrieved 11 July 2016.

External links

Captain Jack at IMDb
Captain Jack at Rotten Tomatoes

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[1] Liptrot, Kate (14 April 2015). "Whitby's arctic adventurer Jack Lammiman dies, aged 75". Whitby Gazette. Retrieved 11 July 2016.

[2] Dunn, Peter (3 April 1993). "Jack's big trip: Two summers ago the Helga Maria and her motley crew set sail for the Arctic Circle. What started as a romantic mission ended in mutiny, prison, and million-pound movie deals struck in Whitby hotel rooms". The Independent. Retrieved 11 July 2016.

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v t e Works by Jack Rosenthal
Television writing	Coronation Street (1961–69) Pardon the Expression (1965–66) There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah (1968) The Dustbinmen (1969–70) The Lovers (1970–71) Another Sunday and Sweet F.A. (1972) The Evacuees (1975) Sadie, It's Cold Outside (1975) Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill (1976) Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976) Spend, Spend, Spend (1977) London's Burning (1986) Day To Remember (1986) And a Nightingale Sang (1989) About Face (1989–91) Wide-Eyed and Legless (1993) Moving Story (1994–95) Eskimo Day (1996)
Films	The Lucky Star (1980) P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (1982) Yentl (1983) The Chain (1984) Captain Jack (1999)
Stage works	Bar Mitzvah Boy (musical) (1978)