The Blood Ship (1927)
70 min
A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former captain's wife and daughter. The ship's crew is composed mostly of sailors who were shanghai'ed aboard and are kept in line by the brutal captain and his even more fearsome first mate. The captain and one of his fellow crewmen--who has fallen in love with the man's daughter, who now belongs to the brutal captain--try to unite the crew to end the brutal reign of the captain and his henchman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2007.
- Release date
- July 18, 1927
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Hobart Bosworth as James Newman
- Jacqueline Logan as Mary Swope
- Richard Arlen as John Shreve
- Walter James as Captain Swope
- Fred Kohler as The First Mate
- Frank Hemphill as The Second Mate
- Arthur Rankin as Nils
- Chappell Dossett as Rev. Richard Deaken
- James Bradbury Sr. as The Knitting Swede
- Syd Crossley as The Cockney
Crew
- George B. Seitz · Director
- Fred Myton · Writer
- Norman Springer · Writer
- Harry Cohn · Producer
- Harry Davis · Cinematographer
- J.O. Taylor · Cinematographer