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Writers:
George S. King (novel) and
William Faulkner (story)
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8 October 1937 (Denmark) more
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Captain Lovett ordered his first mate Thompson to get rid of his slave-trading crew and get a more respectable bunch for standard shipping... more | add synopsis
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Cracking stuff! more (4 total)
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Warner Baxter | ... | Jim Lovett | |
| Wallace Beery | ... | Jack Thompson | |
| Elizabeth Allan | ... | Nancy Marlowe | |
| Mickey Rooney | ... | Swifty | |
| George Sanders | ... | Lefty | |
| Jane Darwell | ... | Mrs. Marlowe | |
| Joseph Schildkraut | ... | Danelo | |
| Miles Mander | ... | Corey | |
| Arthur Hohl | ... | Grimes | |
| Douglas Scott | ... | Boy | |
| Minna Gombell | ... | Mabel | |
| Billy Bevan | ... | Atkins | |
| Francis Ford | ... | Scraps | |
| Jane Jones | ... | Ma Belcher | |
| J. Farrell MacDonald | ... | Proprietor |
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100 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #3047)
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Referenced in Barton Fink (1991) more
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Lilly Dale more
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SLAVE SHIP
Aspect ratio: 1.37:1
Sound format: Mono
(Black and white)
Any film which opens with an unbilled Lon Chaney Jr. being crushed to death during the launching of a ship can't be all bad! And, indeed, Tay Garnett's SLAVE SHIP gets off to a cracking start with a hellish vision of the slave trade along the West African coast in 1860. Sadly, the long middle section is bogged down by muted dramatics and a number of soggy romantic interludes (Warner Baxter and Elizabeth Allan provide the offending drippery), but the rousing climax makes up for some of the longueurs. George Sanders turns up, horribly miscast, in one of his pre-stardom roles as a villainous sea-dog.