PHANTOM SHIP - DVD

Details

• Release Year: 1935
• Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
• Plot: The mystery of the half-brig Mary Celeste is a true and tragic tale of the sea. She sailed from New York with a crew of eight on November 5, 1872. A month and a day later, the ship was found under full sail without a person aboard. The lifeboat and some navigational instruments were gone but the provisions and all the crew's belongings were still in place. The ship's log offered no explanation. No trace of the captain and his family or the crew was ever found. 'Phantom Ship,' the American edition of the British 1935 Hammer horror film 'Mystery of the Mary Celeste,' offers a cinematic telling of this famous seafaring riddle starring 'Dracula's' Bela Lugosi as seaman Anton Lorenzen, a religious zealot who may just be the key to this mystery. ; ; PHANTOM SHIP has been widely distributed on small home video labels on VHS tapes of prints of decidedly inferior picture and sound quality, but now, at last, comes this authorized DVD version taken directly from the original 35mm nitrate export negative and a new 35mm sound master positive created for this excellent transfer. The American edition omits the original opening and closing sequences set in a maritime courtroom, presuming that American audiences would be less familiar than the British with the true story and would prefer just the actual narrative. The deleted sequences apparently no longer exist.
• Cast: Bela Lugosi, Shirley Grey, Arthur Margetson, Edmund Willard, Dennis Hoey, George Mozart, Johnnie Schofield, Gunner Moir, Ben Welden, Clifford McLaglen, Bruce Gordon, Gibson Gowland, Terence de Marney, Edgar Pierce, Herbert Cameron, Wilfred Essex, James Carew, Monti DeLyle, Alec Fraser, Charles Mortimer, Graham Soutten, J.B. Williams, Denison Clift, Charles Larkworthy
• Director: Denison Clift
• Runtime: 1:02
• Company: Image Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie