Slave Ship is a 1937 film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Warner Baxter and Wallace Beery. The supporting cast features Mickey Rooney, George Sanders, Jane Darwell, and Joseph Schildkraut. It is one of very few films out of the forty-eight that Beery made during the sound era for which he did not receive top billing.
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Slave Ship | |
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Directed by | Tay Garnett |
Written by | William Faulkner (story) |
Screenplay by | Sam Hellman Lamar Trotti Gladys Lehman |
Based on | The Last Slaver by George S. King[1] |
Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
Starring | Warner Baxter Wallace Beery Elizabeth Allan Mickey Rooney George Sanders Jane Darwell Joseph Schildkraut |
Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
Edited by | Lloyd Nosler |
Music by | Alfred Newman |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 100 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a mixed review, finding fault with the "slow-motion emotions" of Warner Baxter's acting and the plot's "slowness and inevitability" whereas real life is replete with "unexpected encounter[s]". Nevertheless, Greene opined that "[Slave-Ship] isn't a bad film, [and] it has excellent moments". Chief amongst these moments, Greene praised the knife-throwing scenes and the general acting of Wallace Beery.[2]
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