The Dove (1974 film)
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| Directed by | Charles Jarrott |
| Produced by | Gregory Peck |
| Screenplay by |
Peter S. Beagle Adam Kennedy |
| Based on | the book by Derek L.T. Gill Robin Lee Graham |
| Starring |
Joseph Bottoms Deborah Raffin |
| Music by | John Barry |
| Cinematography | Sven Nykvist |
| Edited by | John Jympson |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Dove is a 1974 American biographical film directed by Charles Jarrott. The picture was produced by Gregory Peck, the third and last feature film he would produce.
The drama is based on the real life experiences of Robin Lee Graham, a young man who spent five years sailing around the world as a single-handed sailor, starting when he was 16 years old. The story is adapted from Dove (1972), the book Graham co-wrote with Derek L.T. Gill about his seafaring experiences.
The film tells of real-life Robin Lee Graham (Joseph Bottoms), a 16-year-old boy who sets out in a 23-foot sloop and is determined to be the youngest person to circumnavigate the world. He had planned the long trip with his sailor father Lyle Graham (John McLiam) for years.
He sets sail on his journey and on one of his stops he meets and falls in love with the gregarious and attractive young woman, Patti Ratteree (Deborah Raffin). After much banter, Patti decides to follow Graham throughout his long journey. She meets him in Fiji, Australia, South Africa, Panama, and the Galápagos Islands.
As he travels around the globe, Graham experiences many adventures on the sea and land as he grows from a teenager to a young adult. Yet Graham finds the trip a very lonely experience, especially when the wind dies on him on the high seas. At one point he badly wants to quit the voyage but Patti (now his new wife) and his father talk him out of it. At the end of the film Graham sails into Los Angeles with crowds welcoming him home.
Robin Lee Graham (born 1949) set out to sail around the world alone as a teenager in the summer of 1965. National Geographic Magazine carried the story in three issues from 1966 to 1970, and he co-wrote a book detailing his journey called Dove. Graham was just 16 when he set out from Southern California and headed west in his 24-foot Lapworth sailboat. He became married along the way, and after almost five years, sailed back into his home port. After he and his wife Patti attended Stanford University, they moved to Montana and settled down.
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