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The Isle of Lost Ships (1929 film)
''The Isle of Lost Ships'' is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a Vitaphone track of effects and music. The picture was produced by Richard A. Rowland and distributed by Warner Bros. Irvin Willat was the director ...
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''The Isle of Lost Ships'' is a 1923 American silent adventure/melodrama film directed and produced by
Maurice Tourneur Maurice may refer to:
People
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*Maurice (bishop of London) (died 1107), Lord Chancellor and Lo ...
and distributed by
Associated First National Pictures. The film is based on
Crittenden Marriott's novel
The Isle of Dead Ships' c.1909. The story was
re-filmed in 1929 by director
Irvin Willat
Irvin V. Willat (November 18, 1890 – April 17, 1976) was an American film director of the silent film, silent film era. A short biography reprinted from ''Blue Book of the Screen'' (1923). He directed 39 films between 1917 and 1937. Early i ...
.
Tourneur himself made a different story with similar theme called ''
The Ship of Lost Souls
''The Ship of Lost Souls'' or ''The Ship of Lost Men'' (German: ''Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen'') is a 1929 German silent thriller film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Fritz Kortner, Marlene Dietrich and Robin Irvine.
It was ...
'' (1929) which had a young German actress,
Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva ; however Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name . (, ; ...
, in the cast.
The 1923 film has long since been thought to be
lost
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*Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland
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.
The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:''The Isle of Lost Ships''
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Cast
*Anna Q. Nilsson
Anna Quirentia Nilsson (March 30, 1888 – February 11, 1974) was a Swedish-American actress who achieved success in American silent movies.
Early life
Nilsson was born in Ystad, Sweden in 1888. Her middle name Quirentia is derived from her ...
as Dorothy Fairfax
*Milton Sills
Milton George Gustavus Sills (January 12, 1882 – September 15, 1930) was an American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century.
Biography
Sills was born in Chicago, Illinois, into a wealthy family. He was the son of William Henr ...
as Frank Howard
*Frank Campeau
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On Broadway, Campeau appeared in ''Rio Gr ...
as Detective Jackson
* Walter Long as Peter Forbes
*Bert Woodruff
William Herbert "Bert" Woodruff (April 29, 1856 – June 14, 1934) was an American actor of the silent era.
Woodruff was born in Peoria, Illinois, and was the son of Mrs. Hannah Woodruff. He performed on stage before he began acting on fi ...
as Patrick Joyce
*Aggie Herring
Agnes Herring (February 4, 1876 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1939.
She was born in San Francisco and died in Santa Monica, California.