This Woman Is Mine

7/28/2025

It seems like hardly any time at all since Franchot Tone was sailing aboard HMS “Bounty” but here he is, again, aboard a ship, again flirting with mutiny, on a trading mission to Oregon. It’s captained by the fastidious but not inhumane “Thorne” (Walter Brennan) and crewed by a usual mix of seafaring types and by cocky Frenchman “de Montigny” (John Carroll). They have barely left the port when “Stevens” (Tone) discovers a stowaway in his cabin. “Julie” (Carol Bruce) has been snuck aboard by her French beau on the pretext that they are going to France. Before he gets a chance to get to the bottom of things, the captain walks in for some charts and, angry at being deceived, insists that she adopt the role of his cabin boy. The rest of the voyage sees her cause just about everyone to spar and