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Director:
Maurice Tourneur
Writers:
Franzos Keremen (novel)
Maurice Tourneur (writer)
Release Date:
9 December 1929 (Finland) more
Genre:
Drama | Thriller more
Plot:
Vela, cynical captain of a slow, decrepit sailing ship, sells passage out of Germany to fugitives. His crew are no angels either... more | add synopsis
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Sea Wolf sans Nietzsche more

Cast

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Marlene Dietrich ... Ethel Marley
Fritz Kortner ... Capt. Fernando Vela
Robin Irvine ... William Cheyne
Vladimir Sokoloff ... Grischa the Cook (as Wladimir Sokoloff)
Gaston Modot ... Morain the convict
Boris de Fast ... Tattooed Man
Feodor Chaliapin Jr. ... Nick (as F. Schaljapin)
Max Maximilian ... Tom Butley
Fritz Alberti
Robert Garrison
Heinrich Gotho
Harry Grunwald
Emil Heyse
Fred Immler
Alfred Loretto
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Grischa the Cook (International: English title)
Le navire des hommes perdus (France)
The Ship of Lost Men (International: English title)
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Runtime:
121 min (approx)
Country:
Germany | France
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent
Company:
Max Glass Film more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Sea Wolf sans Nietzsche, 26 May 2003
9/10
Author: boblipton from New York City

Tourneur's last silent movie shows his full command of the silent film grammar -- much of which he invented -- in his beautiful compositions and still camera, punctuated for excellent effect by purposeful moving and process shots. He never uses the camera to make the viewer gasp at his brilliance, but only to punctuate a psychological point or improve the film's pace.

The story, from the novel by Franzos Keremen, is a commentary on Jack London's SEA WOLF. London's Wolf Larsen is a Nietzschean philosopher. The captain, in this movie, is a schemer among brutes -- a correction to London's drunken maunderings that might have served humanity better. It is the gentle cook, played by Vladimir Sokoloff that is the real hero of the story after the crew mutinies and kills the ship's master.

The movie also stars Marlene Dietrich, a few months before von Sternberg supposedly plucked her from obscurity. She looks a lot like Claudette Colbert in this movie and shows her command of film acting already. Very highly recommended.

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