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The Ship of Lost Men

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Original title

Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen

Year

1929

Running time

121 min.

Country

Germany

Director

Maurice Tourneur

Screenwriter

Maurice Tourneur. Novel: Franzos Keremen

Cast

Cinematography

Nicolas Farkas (B&W)

Producer

Co-production Germany-France;

Max Glass Film

Genre

Thriller. Drama | Silent Film

Synopsis

Marlene Dietrich stars as a daring adventuress whose plane crash lands in the Atlantic Ocean.

Vela(Fritz Alberti), cynical captain of a slow, decrepit sailing ship, sells passage out of Germany to fugitives. His crew are no angels either. Cheyne(Robin Irvine), a young American doctor visiting the ship, is shanghaied on a 3-month voyage to Brazil when Vela abruptly embarks. In mid-ocean, Cheyne rescues the survivor of a watery plane crash, lovely American heiress Ethel Marley(Marlene Dietrich); he and the ship's cook keep her hidden from captain and crew. But a brutal incident leads to mutiny and murder, putting the two Americans in great danger...building to a cliffhanger climax. This unusual, action-packed melodrama was Maurice Tourneur's last silent film, and released just prior to The Blue Angel, Dietrich's star-making picture.

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The Ship of Lost Men

1929

Maurice Tourneur