''The Wreck of the Hesperus'' is a 1948 American adventure film directed by John Hoffman and starring

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and

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. It was produced by silent film actor

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in association with

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, which also distributed the film. It is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' p.212 c.1978 the American Film Institute

Plot

Captain John McReady loses his ship in a storm when he is misled by a fake channel light. With no shipowner willing to give him another command, he accepts a job offered by George Lockhart, managing a salvaging warehouse. It turns out, however, that Lockhart is the man responsible for wrecking McReady's ship and others.

Cast

as John McReady *

as George Lockhart *

as Deborah Allen *

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as Pastor West *

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as Caleb Cross *Boyd Davis as Governor Lincoln * Jeff Corey as Joshua Hill * Paul Campbell as Ned Jones * Paul E. Burns as Rudolph Zeiss

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* 1948 films Columbia Pictures films Films about seafaring accidents or incidents Films based on works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Films set in the 1830s American black-and-white films American adventure drama films 1940s adventure drama films Films with screenplays by Aubrey Wisberg Films directed by John Hoffman 1940s American films 1940s English-language films English-language adventure drama films {{1940s-drama-film-stub