Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor

Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
Directed by David Lean
Produced by George Andrews
Wayne Tourell
Written by Robert Bolt
David Lean
Wayne Tourell
Cinematography Eddie Fowlie
Ken Dorman
Edited by David Reed
Production
company
Faraway Productions
Distributed by South Pacific Television
Release date
1979
Running time
40 minutes
Country New Zealand
Language English

Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor, also known as Lost and Found: The Story of an Anchor, is a 1979 New Zealand documentary television film directed and co-written by David Lean.[1]

Plot

Filmmaker David Lean is scouting locations in Tahiti for a feature film about the famous mutiny on the HMS Bounty. His property master, Eddie Fowlie, discovers the whereabouts of an anchor which had belonged to Captain James Cook, and historians and experts arrive to examine it before an attempt is made to raise it and bring it to land.

References

  1. "A 'Lost' Treasure: David Lean's documentary 'Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor'". Cinephilia & Beyond. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
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