Fastest sailor would receive £5,000 (or $120,000 in today's money) Crowhurst disappeared after 240 days at sea The mystery disappearance of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst during his attempt to sail ...

Colin Firth stars in one of two new films about yachtsman Crowhurst and his disastrous 1968 round-the-world race. Is the studio distributing both films hoping for smooth sailing? Fifty years ago, an ...

In 1969, Donald Crowhurst fooled the world into believing he was completing the fastest non-stop solo circumnavigation of the globe. Then his boat was found, empty and adrift in the Atlantic.

Months before setting sail in an effort to become the first person to make a solo nonstop sea voyage around the globe, Donald Crowhurst was asked by a journalist what his quest required. Crowhurst, a ...

Simon Rumley unnervingly details the mental collapse of yachtsman Donald Crowhurst in the first of two current films on the subject Dir Simon Rumley. UK. 2017. 99 mins. In 1969, while competing in a ...

Perri Nemiroff is the 2025 Press Award winner at the ICG Publicists Awards. She's the senior producer at Collider where she hosts and produces the interview series, Collider Ladies Night, a show ...

Simon Crowhurst recalls the day his father left on his fateful trip, and explains his reservations about The Mercy, a new film about his story Simon Crowhurst was eight when he saw his father for the ...

'Crowhurst' takes a psychological horror indie-movie approach to the story of the amateur sailor who died while competing in an around-the-world yacht race. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer The story ...

There’s something rather endearing about Simon Rumley’s small budget biopic in which he details the mental unravelling of yachtsman Donald Crowhurst, just before his disappearance whilst trying to ...