Family Theater: The Flying Dutchman

Family Theatre presents Jeff Chandler and Elizabeth Scott. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents The Flying Dutchman starring Jeff Chandler. Elizabeth Scott will be your hostess. Family Theatre's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we're to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families

and peace for the world. Family Theatre urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. And now to our transcribed drama, The Flying Dutchman, starring Jeff Chandler. The Flying Dutchman. That imaginary character seen in Fancy a Thousand Times by the Sailor Man from Iceland to the Cape, from Singapore to the New World.

The Flying Dutchman destined according to legend to sail the seas forever. September 12, 1672. There is only this slog to witness what I do. My compass reads East by Nor East, my mains and royals are bursting with the West wind that blows across my quarter.

This morning the great crescent of my horizon was broken. What shore? Will this be the answer? Make it so. Make this the time, the place that halts my ceaseless wandering. The sound of cannon fire is still one of the signs of civilization.

The art of warfare only improves with time. It doesn't disappear. I can see the top rigging of the ships that survived the battle as my ship works its way through the remnants of those that did not.

No sign of life, only a spar, a hedge cover, blasted from the mothership. Aha, the ship! And there is life. Aha, the ship! Hold fast, I'll throw you a line. There you are, sir. Hold that till I last the captain to the boy.