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The Ghost Ship
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| The Ghost Ship | |
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 The Ghost Ship starring Richard Dix |
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| Directed by | Mark Robson |
| Produced by | Val Lewton |
| Written by | Leo Mittler (story) Donald Henderson Clarke |
| Starring | Richard Dix Russell Wade |
| Music by | Roy Webb |
| Cinematography | Nicholas Musuraca |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures Inc. |
| Release date(s) | December 24, 1943 (New York City) |
| Running time | 69 min |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
The Ghost Ship is a black-and-white 1943 film starring Richard Dix. The film was directed by Mark Robson and produced by Val Lewton for RKO Pictures.
A young officer joins the crew of a ship. At first, the captain (Dix) seems OK, but as the cruise goes forward a few deaths of crewmen occur. The young officer comes to believe that the captain, who is obsessed with authority, is responsible. At the first port, he attempts to reveal the captain as a madman but no one believes him and the young officer is fired. Unfortunately, while walking the streets he becomes involved in a fight and one of his old crew members, not knowing he was kicked off the ship, returns the unconscious man back on the ship before it steams from port. The officer wakes up on the ship and now realizes that the crazy captain may try to kill him out of revenge.
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- RKO tasked producer Lewton to make a sea-based film because the studio had a ship set already built after the making of the film Pacific Liner in 1938.
- The film's producer Lewton was sued for plagiarism when it was claimed that the script was based on a play that was submitted to Lewton for a possible film. Lewton disputed the claim, but after a court case, the court ruled against him. The Ghost Ship was withdrawn from circulation and the film was unavailable for viewing for fifty years.
- The film was released as part of the Val Lewton Horror Collection DVD set in 2005.
- The spaceship in the film Forbidden Planet, the Altair, is named for the titular ship in The Ghost Ship.
- Richard Dix as Captain Will Stone
- Russell Wade as Tom Merriam, 3rd Officer
- Edith Barrett as Ellen Roberts
Ghost Ship is an unrelated 2002 horror film.