(For the 1929 talkie see The Isle of Lost Ships (1929 film))
The Isle of Lost Ships | |
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1923 theatrical poster | |
Directed by | Maurice Tourneur |
Written by | Charles Maigne (scenario) |
Based on | The Isle of Dead Ships by Crittenden Marriott |
Produced by | Maurice Tourneur Productions& Ned Marin |
Cinematography | Arthur L. Todd |
Edited by | Frank Lawrence |
Distributed by | Associated First National |
Release date |
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Running time | 8 reels (7,425 ft) |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1923 American silent adventure/melodrama film produced and directed by Maurice Tourneur. It was distributed by Associated First National Pictures. The film is based on the novel The Isle of Dead Ships written by Crittenden Marriott around 1909. In 1929, director Irvin Willat, re-filmed the story.
Maurice Tourneur himself also created a different film with a similar theme called The Ship of Lost Souls in 1929, featuring the young German actress, Marlene Dietrich in the cast.
The 1923 version of the film is believed to be lost, and no longer available.
Cast
- Anna Q. Nilsson as Dorothy Fairfax
- Milton Sills as Frank Howard
- Frank Campeau as Detective Jackson
- Walter Long as Peter Forbes
- Bert Woodruff as Patrick Joyce
- Aggie Herring as Mother Joyce
- Herschel Mayall as Captain Clark
Story
The story revolves around people and ships trapped in a section of the southern Atlantic Ocean infested with seaweed, known as the Sargasso Sea.
See also
- List of lost films
- The Lost Continent (1968). Also set in the Sargasso Sea.
References
- American Film Institute Catalog: Feature Films 1921-30, p. 387, by The American Film Institute, c.1971
- The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Isle of Lost Ships
- Progressive Silent Film List: The Isle of Lost Ships at silentera.com
- Progressive Silent Film List: The Isle of Lost Ships at silentera.com
- The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:The Isle of Lost Ships
External links
- The Isle of Lost Ships at IMDb
- L'lle des Naivres Perdus (The Isle of Lost Ships); allmovie.com
- Lantern slide for The Isle of Lost Ships...retrieved version from Wayback (archived)
- Consortium of advertisements for the film, lobby poster, slide, issue of Photoplay magazine
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- 1923 films
- American silent feature films
- American black-and-white films
- Films directed by Maurice Tourneur
- Lost American adventure drama films
- 1920s adventure drama films
- First National Pictures films
- Films based on American novels
- Films about survivors of seafaring accidents or incidents
- 1923 drama films
- 1920s American films
- Silent American adventure drama films
- 1920s English-language films
- English-language adventure drama films
- Silent adventure film stubs