Early ACW film

[Bmac48]

While looking at YouTube for ACW naval documentaries I discovered this early drama. It's called Hearts in Bondage (1936), and it stars James Dunn, Mae Clarke, and David Manners. It covers the creations of USS Monitor and CSS Virginia and the battle between both.

I love how the Southerners all seem to speak with a Yankee accent...must be a bad casting director!

 

[James N.]

Interesting - James "Jimmie" Dunn is possibly best known today as the first of many of Shirley Temple's "leading men" when she got to the "big time"; here's a still of them together with Claire Trevor from Baby Take a Bow:

 

[James N.]

Here's a link to a thread about another 1991 production with a similar theme:

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/turner-broadcasting-networks-1991-ironclads.82612/#post-619810

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Good ol' Hearts in Bondage. If you Google it, be prepared for some wacky results to come up...

(The acting and plotting are a bit cheesy, but the special effects are really pretty good, relative to what they had to work with.)

 

[Union_Buff]

Thank you for posting the link to the movie Bmac - I will definitely have to watch this sometime