Scott of the Antarctic (1948) on Netflix
PG19481h 51mActionAdventureBiography
Captain Robert Falcon Scott has the men for a second Antarctic expedition but not the funds. He recruits Dr. E. A. Wilson and visits Fridtjof Nansen before his fundraising campaign.
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Plot summary
Captain Robert Falcon Scott is granted men for a second expedition to the Antarctic, though not the money to pay for it. His wife tells him, while she sculpts his likeness, that she feels no jealousy about his return south. Dr. E. A. Wilson agrees to join if the journey is scientific. The veteran explorer Fridtjof Nansen urges him to depend on dogs alone rather than motor sledges or ponies. Liverpool businessmen doubt him; schoolchildren help fund the dogs. A government grant finally covers the cost, and the ship leaves New Zealand for the ice.
Cast
- Norman Williamsas Chief Stoker W. Lashly R.N.
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Ralph Vaughan Williams reworked his score for the film into his Seventh Symphony, Sinfonia antartica, in 1953, and the music for the film has come to be better known than the film itself.
- During the making of the film, John Mills, who played Robert Falcon Scott, wore Scott's actual watch, which had been recovered from his body.
- Scott's real diary entry read "Now for the run home and a desperate struggle to get the news through first", a reference to his lucrative media agreement, with Amundsen also holding one. The published diary omitted these six words, and they were only rediscovered long after the film was produced.
- After three years' research for the film, cameraman Osmond Borradaile traveled 30,000 miles and spent six months in 1946 and 1947 shooting Antarctic footage at Hope Bay and in the South Shetland and South Orkney Islands.
