Ship of the Dead

Ship of the Dead 1959

6.6 19

After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship's cargo... Written by Anonymous

  • Released: 1959-10-01
  • Runtime: 98 minutes
  • Genre: Adventure, Drama
  • Stars: Horst Buchholz, Günter Meisner, Helmut Schmid, Panos Papadopulos, Elke Sommer, Alfred Balthoff, Alf Marholm, Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmann, Claudia Gerstäcker, Marielouise Nagel, Mario Adorf, Werner Buttler, Albert Bessler, Karl Lieffen, Dieter von Keil, Edgar O. Faiss
  • Director: Georg Tressler