The Sea Wolf (1930)

Directed by

Alfred Santell

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A shipwreck survivor is rescued by a tyrannical sea captain who rules his crew with an iron fist. The story follows the harsh life aboard the ship and the clash between the captain's brutality and the survivor's civilized values.

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What happens

The Sea Wolf is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Alfred Santell and written by S. N. Behrman and Ralph Block. The film stars Milton Sills, Jane Keithley, Raymond Hackett, Mitchell Harris, Nat Pendleton, and John Rogers. It is based on the 1904 novel The Sea-Wolf by Jack London. The film was released on September 21, 1930, by Fox Film Corporation. This was the final film starring Sills, released posthumously just one week after his sudden death at age 48. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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