Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

8/5/2024

**_Gives you a good idea of how challenging the risky journey was_** In September-November 1620, the Mayflower carries 102 passengers plus 25-30 crewmembers from southwest England to the cape in what is now Massachusetts. Anthony Hopkins plays the captain while Richard Crenna is on hand as the leader of the Pilgrims, a group of Calvinist Puritans who chose to separate completely from the Church of England and were thus dubbed Separatists. "Mayflower: The Pilgrim’s Adventure" (1979) is a television production criticized as ‘the Love Boat without a shuffleboard’ due to some romantic subplots, but it works well enough to help you see what the daring historical adventure was like. Besides, as the enlightening Epilogue blurb points out, Priscilla Mullins (Jenny Agutter), John Alden (Mich