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The Sea Wolf (1920)

The Sea Wolf poster
Directed by
George Melford
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rated
NR
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A brutal sea captain terrorizes his crew aboard a ship. A man must survive the captain's cruelty and the dangerous ocean.

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What happens

The Sea Wolf is a lost 1920 American drama film based upon the 1904 novel by Jack London, directed by George Melford, and starring Noah Beery as the brutal sea captain Wolf Larsen, sometimes referred to as "The Sea Wolf." The supporting cast includes Mabel Julienne Scott, Tom Forman, Raymond Hatton, and A. Edward Sutherland. The film was remade twenty-one years later with Edward G. Robinson in Beery's role. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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