High Barbaree "Film-Noir" constantly moving and changing aliases

constantly moving and changing aliases to flee facing charges from an inadvertent crime they committed as war protestors 15 years earlier

A highlight of the 1986 Deauville American Film Festival

When Macon Leary's (Hurt) wife

vinegary "Ma" Talbot (character actress Leona Roberts)

Chas Devlin is a "performer

High Barbaree "Film-Noir" constantly moving and changing aliasesAdrift in the Pacific after their plane is shot down, WWII airmen Alec Brooke (Van Johnson) and Joe Moore (Cameron Mitchell) battle thirst and increasing desperation. To keep their spirits up, Alec weaves a story for Joe, his own story of daring boyhood adventures, of the pretty girl (June Allyson) he left behind and of his ne`er do well uncle's tall tales of the uncharted island of High Barbaree. Then the downed men realize they're drifting toward