Wednesday, September 18, 7:30 p.m.

Captains Courageous (1937)
Directed by: Victor Fleming
Featuring: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Melvyn Douglas, Lionel Barrymore, Freddy Bartholemew

Spencer Tracy won an Academy Award for Best Actor in this superb adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's poignant sea classic. Tracy plays Manuel, a Portuguese fisherman who teaches human values to a millionaire's spoiled young son, played by Freddie Bartholemew.

Treasure Island (1934)
Directed by: Victor Fleming
Featuring: Wallace Beery; Jackie Cooper; Lionel Barrymore

Director Victor Fleming's adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel features Jackie Cooper as Jim Hawkins, the boy who finds a treasure map inside a pirate's chest. Wallace Beery plays Long John Silver (argh, matey!).

Wednesday, October 16, 7:30 p.m.

Moby Dick (1956)
Directed by: John Huston
Featuring: Gregory Peck; Richard Basehart; Orson Welles

Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay for this first-rate adaptation of Herman Melville's 1851 novel, directed by John Huston. Gregory Peck portrays Ahab, the captain of the doomed Pequod who’s obsessed with wreaking vengeance on the monstrous white whale, Moby Dick.

Wednesday, October 30, 7:30 p.m.

Damn the Defiant! (1962)
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Featuring: Alec Guinness; Dirk Bogarde; Anthony Quayle

Alec Guiness stars as Crawford, the captain of the H.M.S. Defiant as she embarks on a voyage to battle invading French pirates. When he’s injured in battle, his megalomaniac Lt. Scott-Padget, played by Dirk Bogarde, ruthlessly takes command. Based on Frank Tilsley’s novel, MUTINY, this film shows an accurate re-creation of 18th-century nautical warfare.

Wednesday, November 13, 7:30 p.m.

Marx Brothers double feature

Monkey Business (1931)
Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod
Featuring: Marx Brothers; Thelma Todd; Ruth Hall

Harpo, Chico, Groucho AND Zeppo stow away on board a luxury ocean liner filled with gangsters in this early Marx Brothers classic.

A Night at the Opera (1935)
Directed by: Sam Wood
Featuring: Marx Brothers; Kitty Carlisle; Allan Jones

Groucho’s fortunes fall and rise as he pursues wealthy widow Margaret Dumont across the ocean, with Harpo, Chico and tenor Allan Jones stowed away in his trunk. With a script by George Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, this is perhaps the Marx Brothers’ signature film.

Wednesday, December 11, 7:30 p.m.

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Directed by: Frank Lloyd
Featuring: Charles Laughton; Clark Gable; Franchot Tone

With Charles Laughton as Captain William Bligh and Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian, and a ship built especially for the film, this classic sea saga sets the stage for Bligh's incredible 4,000-mile voyage in an open boat from Tahiti to the Dutch East Indies. Gable saved the replica of the Bounty from being burned and scuttled. She’s now undergoing restoration.