Only four years after the disastrous 1492: Conquest of Paradise (a film that would have destroyed a lesser director's career), Ridley Scott was back in nautical territory with White Squall, a semi-successful, fact - based survival / courtroom drama that featured a sizable collection of up - and - coming actors, including Scott Wolf, Ryan Phillippe, Jeremy Sisto, Eric Michael Cole, Balthazar Getty, and Ethan Embry (among others), and a creditable turn
by Jeff Bridges as the ill - fated leader of a sailing trip
threatened by the «white squall» (a sudden, violent
windstorm) of the title.
I know it is a half a day early, but we are being
threatened by a significant
windstorm, the winds have begun to howl, and I would hate to lose power before I posted this.