Ship of the Dead
- Original title
- Das Totenschiff
- Year
- 1959
- Running time
- 97 min.
- Country
- Germany - West Germany (FRG)
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Horst Buchholz
- Mario Adorf
- Helmut Schmid
- Alf Marholm
- Werner Buttler
- Dieter von Keil
- Panos Papadopulos
- Edgar O. Faiss
- Günter Meisner
- Alfred Balthoff
- Albert Bessler
- Karl Lieffen
- Marielouise Nagel
- Claudia Gerstäcker
- Elke Sommer
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- Music
- Cinematography
Heinz Pehlke (B&W)- Producer
- Co-production Germany - West Germany (FRG)-Mexico;
- Genre
- Adventure. Drama | Sea Adventures
- Synopsis
- After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship's cargo...
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