Subject(s): Esther Fernandez Format: 8 x 10 Glossy Photograph with attached caption. Origin: Authentic Paramount Pictures Corporation movie photo provided to media outlets for promotional purposes. Release Date: 1946 Condition: Excellent Comments: Two Years Before the Mast is a 1946 adventure film based on Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'s travel book of the same name. In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).