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SHIP OF LOST MEN – 1929 – MARLENE DIETRICH – SILENT – RARE DVD
Director: Maurice Tourneur
Cast Marlene Dietrich … Ethel Marley Fritz Kortner … Capt. Fernando Vela Robin Irvine … William ‘T.W.’ Cheyne – a young American doctor Vladimir Sokoloff … Grischa – the Cook Gaston Modot … Morain – the escaped convict Boris de Fast … The tattooed sailor Feodor Chaliapin Jr. … Nick Max Maximilian … Tom Butley Fritz Alberti … The captain of the luxury liner Robert Garrison … The landlord Heinrich Gotho … A sailor
William Cheyne is a young American doctor traveling in Germany who helps an injured sailor return to his ship only to be doomed to a three month voyage to Brazil! Trapped between the misanthropic Captain Vela and his crew of fugitives and desperate men, his only friend is Grischa, the meek cook. Soon the new friends must come together to protect the pilot of a crashed airplane, the lovely heiress Ethel Marley, by hiding her from the captain and crew.
