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[StartQuote] C.J., I too watched "Mara Maru" on TCM, mostly because I came across it while channel-surfing, it starred Errol Flynn, and the mention of a PT boat in the plot. For those that haven't seen it, Errol's an ex-PT skipper who carried away a golden, jeweled cross from a church in Manila as it fell in his "PT 49," later sunk with said cross onboard. Errol, who's the only one who knows the location of the sunken PT, and an unsavory character (Raymond Burr in his pre-Perry Mason bad-guy days), are after the valuable cross. The only visual of "PT 49" (presumably a 77' Elco) is an underwater shot of the bow of the sunken boat, a large hole in it and a huge "PT 49" in pre-war shaded numbers on the bow -- not really recognizable as a PT. Not really worth the time, unless you're a hard-core Errol Flynn film fan. And "Mara Maru" is the name of the salvage boat the characters use to look for the sunken "PT 49." [EndQuote]
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