The Ship of Lost Souls
1929 film
- Franzos Keremen (novel)
- Maurice Tourneur
- Fritz Kortner
- Marlene Dietrich
- Robin Irvine
Production
company
company
Max Glass Film
Release date
- 17 September 1929 (1929-09-17)
Running time
- Silent
- German intertitles
The Ship of Lost Souls or The Ship of Lost Men (German: Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen) is a 1929 German silent thriller film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Fritz Kortner, Marlene Dietrich and Robin Irvine.[1]
It was Dietrich's last silent film before The Blue Angel made her an international star. It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin, and partly on location around Rostock. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Franz Schroedter and Fritz Maurischat. It premièred on 17 September 1929 at the Ufa-Pavillon am Nollendorfplatz in Berlin.[2]
Cast
- Fritz Kortner as Kapitän Vela - Captain Fernando Vela
- Marlene Dietrich as Ethel Marley
- Robin Irvine as William 'T.W.' Cheyne - a Young American Doctor
- Vladimir Sokoloff as Grischa - der Koch - the Cook
- Gaston Modot as Der Sträfling Morains - Morain - the Escaped Convict
- Boris de Fast as Der tätowierte - The Tattooed Sailor
- Feodor Chaliapin Jr. as Nick
- Max Maximilian as Tom Butley
- Fritz Alberti as Der Kapitän - The Captain of the Luxury Liner L'Amorique
- Robert Garrison as Der Vermieter - The Landlord
- Heinrich Gotho as Ein Matrose - A Sailor
- Harry Grunwald an Ein Matrose - A Sailor
- Emil Heyse
- Fred Immler
- Alfred Loretto as Ein Matrose - A Sailor
- Gerhard Ritterband
- Aruth Wartan
- Heinz Wemper
- Christiane Tourneur
References
Bibliography
- Waldman, Harry. Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Films. McFarland, 2001.
- Wood, Ean. Divine Dietrich: Venus in Tails. Sanctuary, 2002.
External links
- The Ship of Lost Souls at IMDb
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Films directed by Maurice Tourneur
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- Jean la Poudre (1913)
- The System of Doctor Goudron (1913)
- The Gaieties of the Squadron (1913)
- Tricks of Love (1913)
- The Last Pardon (1913)
- The Cameo (1913)
- Mother (1914)
- Figures de cire (1914)
- The Man of the Hour (1914)
- The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England (1914)
- The Red Promenade (1914)
- The Pit (1914)
- The Sparrow (1914)
- Monsieur Lecoq (1914)
- The Secret of the Well (1914)
- Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915)
- Trilby (1915)
- The Cub (1915)
- The Ivory Snuff Box (1915)
- The Butterfly on the Wheel (1915)
- The Pawn of Fate (1915)
- The Hand of Peril (1916)
- The Closed Road (1916)
- The Velvet Paw (1916)
- The Rail Rider (1916)
- A Girl's Folly (1916)
- The Whip (1917)
- The Undying Flame (1917)
- Exile (1917)
- The Law of the Land (1917)
- The Pride of the Clan (1917)
- The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
- Barbary Sheep (1917)
- The Rise of Jennie Cushing (1917)
- Rose of the World (1917)
- The Blue Bird (1918)
- Prunella (1918)
- A Doll's House (1918)
- Sporting Life (1918)
- Woman (1918)
- My Lady's Garter (1919)
- The White Heather (1919)
- The Life Line (1919)
- Victory (1919)
- The Broken Butterfly (1919)
- The County Fair (1920)
- The Great Redeemer (1920)
- While Paris Sleeps (1920)
- Treasure Island (1920)
- The White Circle (1920)
- Deep Waters (1920)
- The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
- The Bait (1921)
- The Foolish Matrons (1921)
- Lorna Doone (1922)
- The Brass Bottle (1923)
- The Christian (1923)
- The Isle of Lost Ships (1923)
- Jealous Husbands (1923)
- Torment (1924)
- The White Moth (1924)
- Sporting Life (1925)
- Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925)
- Clothes Make the Pirate (1925)
- Aloma of the South Seas (1926)
- Old Loves and New (1926)
- The Crew (1928)
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- Accused, Stand Up! (1930)
- Departure (1931)
- Dance Hall (1931)
- Fun in the Barracks (1932)
- In the Name of the Law (1932)
- L'Homme mystérieux (1933)
- The Two Orphans (1933)
- Le Voleur (1934)
- Justin de Marseille (1935)
- Koenigsmark (1935)
- Samson (1936)
- With a Smile (1936)
- The Patriot (1938)
- Katia (1938)
- Sins of Youth (1941)
- Volpone (1941)
- Miss Bonaparte (1942)
- La Main du diable (1943)
- Cecile Is Dead (1944)
- After Love (1948)
- Dilemma of Two Angels (1948)
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