Truth About Spring, The

Date: 1965
Director: Richard Thorpe
Production Company: Quota Rentals Limited

Stars: Hayley Mills, John Mills, James MacArthur, Lionel Jeffries, Harry Andrews, Niall MacGinnis
Location(s): Catalonia

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Storyline:

A sailor and his tomboy daughter enjoy an simple, carefree lifestyle on a dilapidated sailing boat until modern-day pirates, buried treasure and romance bring changes.

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Page compiled by Phil Wilkinson

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Aboard the Sarah Tyler, Captain Tommy Tyler (John Mills) sews and his daughter Spring (Hayley Mills) fishes as William Ashton (James MacArthur) rows towards them from his rich Uncle Charles's yacht. There are no locations featuring architecture in this production made entirely around S'Agaró in Catalonia.

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Simmons (Lionel Murton) hands Charles Skelton (David Tomlinson) a message from Miss Greer and Miss Jones who are requesting permission to come aboard at San Juan. The waters off S'Agaró in the province of Girona.

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Heading to Tommy's cache to get supplies, William and Spring pull their rowing boat ashore. Cala sa Conca to the south of S'Agaró on the Costa Brava. The beach can be seen in 'The 3 Worlds of Gulliver' and 'Mysterious Island'.

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Finding Carkez has already moored off the beach where treasure is supposedly buried, Tommy, Spring and William lower the Sarah Tyler's sails as they prepare to drop anchor.

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Tommy and William walk to where José Carkez (Lionel Jeffries), Judd Sellers (Harry Andrews) and Cleary (Niall MacGinnis) are digging a hole to plant dynamite to blow open a shipwreck.