Prophet Without Honor

• Tom Neal: Matthew Fontaine Maury

Prophet Without Honor is an American short film from the year 1939.

Action

The film is a short biography of the officer in the U.S. Navy Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873), who studied the stored logs, and gathered from them information on winds, calms, winds, currents and counter-currents of the seas. With this information he published in 1845 the first wind and current map of the world's oceans.

Awards

1940, the film in the category Best Short Film (One -Reel ) was nominated for an Oscar.

Background

The world premiere production of MGM took place on May 20, 1939.

Narrator of the film was producer Carey Wilson.