Fair Wind to Java

January. 28,1953      
Rating:
5.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...

Fred MacMurray as  Captain Boll
Vera Ralston as  Kim Kim
Robert Douglas as  Saint Ebenezer / Pulo Besar
Victor McLaglen as  O'Brien
John Russell as  Flint
Claude Jarman Jr. as  Chess
Paul Fix as  Wilson
Grant Withers as  Jason Blue
Chuck Hayward as  Sailor

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