The Blood Ship

The Blood Ship

Drama | July 18, 1927

A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former captain's wife and daughter. The ship's crew is composed mostly of sailors who were shanghai'ed aboard and are kept in line by the brutal captain and his even more fearsome first mate. The captain and one of his fellow crewmen--who has fallen in love with the man's daughter, who now belongs to the brutal captain--try to unite the crew to end the brutal reign of the captain and his henchman.

The Blood Ship

Drama | July 18, 1927

The Blood Ship
A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former captain's wife and daughter. The ship's crew is composed mostly of sailors who were shanghai'ed aboard and are kept in line by the brutal captain and his even more fearsome first mate. The captain and one of his fellow crewmen--who has fallen in love with the man's daughter, who now belongs to the brutal captain--try to unite the crew to end the brutal reign of the captain and his henchman.
Producers
Original title The Blood Ship
Directors George B. Seitz
Writers Norman Springer, Fred Myton

Cast

Hobart Bosworth

as Jim Newman

Jacqueline Logan

as Mary Swope Newman

Richard Arlen

as John Shreve

Walter James

as Capt. Angus Swope

Fred Kohler

as First Mate Fitz

James Bradbury Sr.

as The Knitting Swede

Arthur Rankin

as Nils

Syd Crossley

as Cockney Bouncer

Frank Hemphill

as Second Mate

Chappell Dossett

as Rev. Richard Deaken

Blue Washington

as Negro