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(For the 1929 talkie see The Isle of Lost Ships (1929 film))

The Isle of Lost Ships
1923 theatrical poster
Directed by	Maurice Tourneur
Written by	Charles Maigne (scenario)
Based on	The Isle of Dead Ships by Crittenden Marriott
Produced by	Maurice Tourneur Productions& Ned Marin
Cinematography	Arthur L. Todd
Edited by	Frank Lawrence
Distributed by	Associated First National
Release date	March 18, 1923 (1923-03-18)
Running time	8 reels (7,425 ft)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1923 American silent adventure/melodrama film directed and produced by Maurice Tourneur and distributed by Associated First National Pictures.[1] The film is based on Crittenden Marriott's novel The Isle of Dead Ships c.1909. The story was re-filmed in 1929 by director Irvin Willat.[2][3]

Tourneur himself made a different story with similar theme called The Ship of Lost Souls (1929) which had a young German actress, Marlene Dietrich, in the cast.[4]

The 1923 film has long since been thought to be lost.[5]

Cast

• Anna Q. Nilsson as Dorothy Fairfax
• Milton Sills as Frank Howard
• Frank Campeau as Detective Jackson
• Walter Long as Peter Forbes
• Bert Woodruff as Patrick Joyce
• Aggie Herring as Mother Joyce
• Herschel Mayall as Captain Clark

Story

People and ships trapped in seaweed infested section of the southern Atlantic Ocean known as the Sargasso Sea.

See also

• List of lost films
• The Lost Continent (1968). Also set in the Sargasso Sea.

References

External links

• The Isle of Lost Ships at IMDb
• L'lle des Naivres Perdus (The Isle of Lost Ships); allmovie.com
• Lantern slide for The Isle of Lost Ships...retrieved version from Wayback (archived)
• Consortium of advertisements for the film, lobby poster, slide, issue of Photoplay magazine

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