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The Ghost Ship ()

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Third Officer Tom Merriam accuses Captain Will Stone of being a homicidal maniac, but no one believes him.
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Will Stone
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Tom Merriam
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Ellen Roberts
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Sparks Winslow
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Raphael (uncredited)
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John Burford ...
Crew Member (uncredited)
Tom Burton ...
William Benson (uncredited)
Harry Clay ...
Tom McCall (uncredited)
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Blind Beggar (uncredited)
Boyd Davis ...
Charles Roberts (uncredited)
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John Corbin (uncredited)
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Officer (uncredited)
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Finn (uncredited)
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Crew Member (uncredited)
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Billy Radd (uncredited)
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Stenographer (uncredited)
Charles Lung ...
Long Jim (uncredited)
Paul Marion ...
Peter (uncredited)
Norman Mayes ...
Carriage Driver (uncredited)
Charles Norton ...
German Sailor (uncredited)
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Ellen's Sister (uncredited)
Russell Owen ...
Crew Member (uncredited)
Charles Regan ...
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Boats (uncredited)
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German Sailor (uncredited)
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Louie Parker (uncredited)
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Chief Engineer (uncredited)
Steve Winston ...
Ausman (uncredited)

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Mark Robson

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Donald Henderson Clarke ... (screen play)
 
Leo Mittler ... (story)

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Val Lewton ... producer

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Roy Webb

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Nicholas Musuraca ... director of photography

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John Lockert

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Albert S. D'Agostino
Walter E. Keller

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Claude E. Carpenter ... (as Claude Carpenter)
Darrell Silvera

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Edward Stevenson ... (gowns)

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Ruby Rosenberg ... assistant director

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Francis M. Sarver ... sound recordist
Terry Kellum ... sound (uncredited)
James G. Stewart ... sound (uncredited)

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Vernon L. Walker ... special effects

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C. Bakaleinikoff ... musical director
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  • RCA (sound system)

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Plot Summary

Tom Merriam signs on the ship Altair as third officer under Captain Stone. At first things look good, Stone sees Merriam as a younger version of himself and Merriam sees Stone as the first adult to ever treat him as a friend. But after a couple strange deaths of crew members, Merriam begins to think Stone is a psychopathic madman obsessed with authority. He tries to tell others, but no one believes him, and it only makes Stone angry.. Written by Ken Yousten

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Taglines MYSTERY TERROR! (print ad - Lubbock Morning Avalanche - Texan Theatre - Lubbock, Texas - June 28, 1944 - all caps) See more »
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Also Known As
  • Ghost Ship (United States)
  • Le vaisseau fantôme (France)
  • El barco fantasma (Spain)
  • El vaixell fantasma (Spain, Catalan title)
  • Statek widmo (Poland)
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  • 69 min
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Budget $150,000 (estimated)

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Trivia RKO had built an expensive ship set for their 1938 production Pacific Liner (1939). Val Lewton was given instructions to come up with a film that could use the still-existing set. According to Robert Wise, a longtime collaborator with Lewton, it was this set that gave Lewton the idea for the film. "He would find what we call a 'standing set,' and then tailor his script to the set, whatever it was. That's how he made The Ghost Ship. He walked onto a set and saw a tanker, then cooked up the idea for this ship with a murderous captain." One scholar has suggested that Lewton accepted the assignment in part because, as an amateur sailor himself, the ship captain's behavior mirrored Lewton's own views on how to manage a ship, but also because Lewton saw the plot as a way of criticizing his micro-managing superiors at RKO. The budget, as with all of Lewton's films, was set at $150,000. See more »
Goofs One shot of the boat traveling toward camera shows the name of the boat on the bow is backwards. The backwards name reads Venture, indicating it's a shot reused from King Kong (1933) that has been horizontally flipped. See more »
Movie Connections Edited from King Kong (1933). See more »
Soundtracks Blow the Man Down See more »
Quotes Finn: [voice over of his internal thoughts in being a mute] The man is dead. With his death, the waters of the sea are open to us. But there will be other deaths, and the agony of dying, before we come to land again.
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