The Sea Wolf
1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
An odd group of people find themselves aboard the Ghost, a sealing schooner captained by the hard taskmaster, Wolf Larson. George Leach is the on the run from the police as is Ruth Webster who has escaped from a women's penitentiary. Also aboard is a young writer, Humphrey van Weyden. He and Webster were fished out of the sea and Larson refuses to put them ashore. Larson is a cruel brute who will have his sailors beaten for the smallest infraction. The three try to escape but without success.
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Ida Lupino · John Garfield · Alexander Knox · Gene Lockhart · Barry Fitzgerald · Stanley Ridges · David Bruce · Francis McDonald · Howard Da Silva · Frank Lackteen
Soundtrack Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Screenplay Robert Rossen · Jack London
Cinematography Sol Polito
Original title The Sea Wolf
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