Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1952

Plymouth Adventure (MGM) Historians are hazy as to exactly what happened aboard the Mayflower between the time it set sail from Plymouth, England on Sept. 16. 1620, and the time it landed 66 days later at Provincetown, Mass. MGM, attempting to fill in the historical gap, has drawn on what studio publicists call new, revealing research as well as on Ernest Gebler's imaginative 1950 novel and on some pure invention by Screenwriter Helen Deutsch. The resulting movie pictures the Atlantic crossing of the Pilgrim Fathers as a combination of storms above deck and...

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