''The Ship of Condemned Women'' (Italian: ''La nave delle donne maledette'') is a 1953 Italian

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adventure-melodrama film written and directed by

Raffaello Matarazzo Raffaello Matarazzo (17 August 1909 – 17 May 1966) was an Italian filmmaker. Life Matarazzo started writing film reviews for the Roman newspaper ''Il Tevere'' before re-editing scripts for the Italian film company Cines. His first films w ...

and starring Kerima,

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and

Ettore Manni Ettore Manni (6 May 1927 – 27 July 1979) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1952 and 1979. Life and career Born in Rome, Manni debuted as an actor in 1952, when in spite of his acting inexperience he wa ...

. It is loosely based on the novel ''Histoire de 130 femmes'' by

Léon Gozlan Léon Gozlan (11 September 1803 – 14 September 1866) was a 19th-century French novelist and playwright. Life When he was still a boy, his father, who had made a large fortune as a ship-broker, met with a series of misfortunes, and Léon, befo ...

. The film's sets were designed by the

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Piero Filippone Piero Filippone (1911–1998) was an Italian art director who designed the sets for around two hundred films. He created the sets for Roberto Rossellini's 1954 film '' Journey to Italy''.Brunette p.416 Selected filmography * '' Three Cornered H ...

Synopsis

A young woman wrongly convicted or murder is sentenced to serve in a

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, departs on a ship carrying a hundred female prisoners.

Cast

* Kerima as Rosario *

as Consuelo *

as Da Silva * Tania Weber as Isabella *

Gualtiero Tumiati Gualtiero Tumiati ( 8 May 1876 – 23 April 1971) was an Italian actor and stage director. Life and career Born in Ferrara, Tumiati studied at the College of the Oaks in Florence and there he attended the acting courses held by Luigi Rasi. He ...

as Pietro Silveris *

Olga Solbelli Olga may refer to: People and fictional characters * Olga (name), a given name, including a list of people and fictional characters named Olga or Olha * Michael Algar (born 1962), English singer also known as "Olga" Places Russia * Olga, Russia, ...

as Anita *

Luigi Tosi Luigi Tosi ( Verona 15 July 1915 – Roma 12 March 1989) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1944 to 1965. Filmography References External links * 1915 births 1989 deaths Italian male film actors ...

as Fernandez *

Marcella Rovena Marcella Rovena (22 January 1905 – 6 October 1991) was an Italian film and voice actress. Born in Conegliano, she started her career on the big screen in 1932 with director Nunzio Malasomma Nunzio Malasomma (4 February 1894 – 12 J ...

as Nora *

Elvy Lissiak Elvy Lissiak (19 July 1929 – 25 February 1996) was an Italian stage and film actress. Life and career Born in Trieste as Elvira Lissiak, she made her film debut with the role of Luciana in Luciano Emmer's ''Domenica d'agosto'', gaining criti ...

as Carmen *

Romolo Costa Romolo Costa (26 February 1897 - 1 January 1965) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Costa appeared in more than seventy films and television series between 1934 and 1964 and he was a character actor who generally appeared in support ...

as Manuel *

Eduardo Ciannelli Eduardo Ciannelli (30 August 1888 – 8 October 1969), was an Italian baritone and character actor with a long career in American films, mostly playing gangsters and criminals. He was sometimes credited as Edward Ciannelli. Early life Ciannelli ...

as Michele *

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Giovanna Ralli Giovanna Ralli, (born 2 January 1935), is an Italian stage, film and television actress. Life and career Born in Rome, Ralli debuted as a child actress at 7; at 13 she made her theatrical debut, entering the stage company of Peppino De Filip ...

Flo Sandon's Mammola Sandon, known by the stage name of Flo Sandon's (29 June 1924 – 17 November 2006), was an Italian singer who was popular in the post-World War II years. She won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1953 with the song " Viale d'autunno". C ...

Anna Arena Anna Arena (June 21, 1919 – August 19, 1974) was an Italian film actress.Smith p.116 Selected filmography * ''Jealousy'' (1942) * '' Vacation with a Gangster'' (1951) * ''The Piano Tuner Has Arrived'' (1952) * '' Beauties in Capri'' (1952) * ' ...

References

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* 1953 films 1950s Italian-language films 1950s adventure drama films Italian adventure drama films Films directed by Raffaello Matarazzo Films scored by Nino Rota Films based on French novels Seafaring films Women in prison films Films set in the 18th century Italian historical adventure films 1950s historical adventure films Minerva Film films 1953 drama films Melodrama films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-drama-film-stub