This article is about the 1943 film. For other uses, see Ghost ship (disambiguation).
The Ghost Ship
Theatrical release poster by William Rose
Directed by
Mark Robson
Screenplay by
Donald Henderson Clarke
Story by
Leo Mittler
Produced by
Val Lewton
Starring
Richard Dix
Cinematography
Nicholas Musuraca
Edited by
John Lockert
Music by
Roy Webb
Production company
RKO Radio Pictures
Release date
December 24, 1943 (1943-12-24) (US)
Running time
69 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$150,000
The Ghost Ship is a 1943 American black-and-white psychological thriller film starring Richard Dix and directed by Mark Robson. It was produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures as part of a series of low-budget horror films. The film can be seen as a "low-key psychological thriller",[1] a "suspense drama",[2] and a "waterlogged melodrama".,[3] Russell Wade, Edith Barrett, Ben Bard and Edmund Glover in support.
The film is about a young merchant marine officer who begins to suspect that his ship's captain is mentally unbalanced and endangering the lives of the ship's crew. The ship's crew, however, believes the vessel to be haunted and cursed and several mysterious deaths occur.
Upon its theatrical release on Christmas Eve, 1943, the film was a box office success but received a mixed critical reception. In February 1944, Lewton was sued for plagiarism by playwrights Samuel R. Golding and Norbert Faulkner, who claimed that the script was based on a play that was submitted to Lewton for a possible film. Because of the suit, The Ghost Ship was withdrawn from theatrical release and not shown for nearly 50 years. It was not until the film's copyright was not renewed and it entered the public domain in the 1990s,[4] that it began to be available again, and was released as part of the Val Lewton Horror Collection DVD set in 2005.
^Hutchings (2009), p. 201
^Bodeen (1976), p. 314
^Meehan (2010), p. 69
^Shirley, Eric. "December 10: Val Lewton's 'The Ghost Ship' Sets Sail" on Yahoo.com (December 10, 2011)
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