The Isle of Lost Ships (1923 film)
(For the 1929 talkie see The Isle of Lost Ships (1929 film))
| The Isle of Lost Ships | |
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 1923 theatrical poster | |
| Directed by | Maurice Tourneur |
| Produced by | Maurice Tourneur Productions& Ned Marin |
| Written by | Charles Maigne (scenario) |
| Based on | The Isle of Dead Ships by Crittenden Marriott |
| Cinematography | Arthur L. Todd |
| Edited by | Frank Lawrence |
| Distributed by | Associated First National |
Release date |
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Running time | 8 reels (7,425 ft) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
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The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1923 American silent adventure/melodrama film directed and produced by Maurice Tourneur and distributed by Associated First National Pictures.[1] The film is based on Crittenden Marriott's novel The Isle of Dead Ships c.1909. The story was re-filmed in 1929 by director Irvin Willat.[2][3]
Tourneur himself made a different story with similar theme called The Ship of Lost Souls (1929) which had a young German actress, Marlene Dietrich, in the cast.[4]
Cast
- Anna Q. Nilsson as Dorothy Fairfax
- Milton Sills as Frank Howard
- Frank Campeau as Detective Jackson
- Walter Long as Peter Forbes
- Bert Woodruff as Patrick Joyce
- Aggie Herring as Mother Joyce
- Herschel Mayall as Captain Clark
Story
People and ships trapped in seaweed infested section of the southern Atlantic Ocean known as the Sargasso Sea.
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See also
- List of lost films
- The Lost Continent (1968). Also set in the Sargasso Sea.
References
- American Film Institute Catalog: Feature Films 1921-30, p. 387, by The American Film Institute, c.1971
- The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Isle of Lost Ships
- Progressive Silent Film List: The Isle of Lost Ships at silentera.com
- Progressive Silent Film List: The Isle of Lost Ships at silentera.com
- The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:The Isle of Lost Ships
External links
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- Lantern slide for The Isle of Lost Ships...retrieved version from Wayback (archived)
- Consortium of advertisements for the film, lobby poster, slide, issue of Photoplay magazine
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