''Ship of Wanted Men'' is a 1933 American
pre-Code
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crime film
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directed by
Lewis D. Collins and starring
Dorothy Sebastian
Dorothy Sebastian (born Stella Dorothy Sabiston; April 26, 1903The book ''Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory'' gives Sebastian's date of birth as April 26, 1907. – April 8, 1957) was an American film and stage actress.
Ear ...
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Fred Kohler
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Career
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and
Leon Ames
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.
[Pitts p.334] The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Fred Preble
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Selected filmography
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Synopsis
A gang of fugitives hijack a ship and make for a Pacific island that has no extradition treaty with the United States.
Cast
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Dorothy Sebastian
Dorothy Sebastian (born Stella Dorothy Sabiston; April 26, 1903The book ''Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory'' gives Sebastian's date of birth as April 26, 1907. – April 8, 1957) was an American film and stage actress.
Ear ...
as Irene Reynolds
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Fred Kohler
Fred Kohler (April 20, 1888 – October 28, 1938) was an American actor.
Career
Fred Kohler was born in Kansas City, Missouri or in Dubuque, Iowa. As a teen, he began to pursue a career in vaudeville, but worked other jobs to support himself. ...
as Chuck Young
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Leon Ames
Leon Ames (born Harry L. Wycoff;U.S. Federal Census for 1910 for Fowler, Center Township, Benton County, State of Indiana, access via Ancestry.com January 20, 1902 – October 12, 1993) was an American film and television actor. He is best rememb ...
as Capt. John Holden
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Gertrude Astor
Gertrude Astor (born Gertrude Irene Eyster; November 9, 1887 – November 9, 1977) was an American motion picture character actress, who began her career playing trombone in a woman's band.
Early years
Gertrude Irene Eyster was born in Lake ...
as Vera
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Maurice Black
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as George Spinoli
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James Flavin
James William Flavin Jr. (May 14, 1906 – April 23, 1976) was an American character actor whose career lasted for nearly half a century.
Early life
The son of a hotel waiter of Canadian-English descent,Flavin's obituary, distributed by United ...
as Frank Busch
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Jason Robards Sr. as John Craig
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Herbert Evans as Duke Finley
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John Ince as Elderly Man
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Kit Guard
Kit Guard (born Christen Klitgaard May 5, 1894 - July 18, 1961) was a Danish-American actor whose career started in the 1920s.
Guard left his birthplace of Hals, Denmark, around the turn of the 20th century, one of five brothers to do so. He m ...
as Crewman
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George 'Gabby' Hayes
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as Crewman
References
Bibliography
* Michael R. Pitts. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each''. McFarland & Company, 2005.
External links
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1933 films
1933 crime films
1930s English-language films
American crime films
Seafaring films
Films directed by Lewis D. Collins
1930s American films
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