The Isle of Lost Ships (1929)

Directed by

Irvin Willat

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film is a sound drama about two people who find love on a mysterious island where ships go to die. A man and a woman get stranded there amid dangers and other lost souls.

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What happens

The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1929 American all-talking sound drama film. The picture was produced by Richard A. Rowland and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Irvin Willat was the director with Jason Robards Sr., Virginia Valli, and Noah Beery Sr. in the leads. It is based on the 1909 novel The Isle of Dead Ships by Crittenden Marriott, and is also a remake of Maurice Tourneur's now lost 1923 classic of the same name. A mute copy of this film is preserved at the Library of Congress and UCLA. The Vitaphone discs which contain the soundtrack to the film are currently lost. An almost complete copy of the Dutch silent version of the film survives (reel four is missing) at the Eye Filmmuseum archive with an estimated running time of 55:58. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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