Captain John Smith and Pocahontas Captain John Smith and Pocahontas Captain John Smith and Pocahontas is a 1953 American NR historical film directed by Lew Landers. The distributor was United Artists. It stars Anthony Dexter, Jody Lawrance and Alan Hale. While most scenes were filmed in Virginia, exteriors were shot around Bronson Canyon. It depicts the foundation of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia by English settlers and the relationship between John Smith and Pocahontas. She married John Rolfe in real life. It is also known by the alternative title Burning Arrows. Regarded as a B movie, the film has gained a cult following. The film
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (, meaning "The Afternoon Towing") is a novel written by Yukio Mishima, published in Japanese in 1963 and translated into English by John Nathan in 1965. Translator John Nathan, in his memoir "Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere" writes:My completed translation was due on January 1, 1965, and I was still struggling to contrive an English title for the book. Mishima’s title was an untranslatable pivot on the word “tugging,” as in tugboat. Literally it meant “tugging in the afternoon,” "Gogo no