While a ship's captain is being slowly poisoned, a gang of thugs try to take over the ship.While a ship's captain is being slowly poisoned, a gang of thugs try to take over the ship.While a ship's captain is being slowly poisoned, a gang of thugs try to take over the ship.
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Frank Hall Crane
- Capt. Carroll
- (as Frank Crane)
Ernest Butterworth
- Seaman
- (uncredited)
Al Haskell
- Seaman
- (uncredited)
Ethan Laidlaw
- Miller
- (uncredited)
- Director
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- TriviaAmerican Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 erroneously reverses roles played by Dorothy Burgess and Miriam Seegar. Burgess plays Concha and Seegar plays Mary Carroll; AFI also erroneously credits Montagu Love with the role of Capt. Carroll; Frank Hall Crane plays Captain Carroll; Love plays Scar Murray.
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A Real Barebones Potboiler With a Touch Of Precode Heat
Noah Beery has been First Mate on three ships that have sunk. Nonetheless, theres no one else with a ticket, and so Frank Hall Crane hires him, despite his daughter, Miriam Seegar, being a passenger. Crane grows weaker and weaker. When they stop at the next port of call, Beery meets with the merchant whose cargo is nominally being carried, and with whom he conspires to split the insurance money for an empty hold... despite ex-lover Dorothy Burgess now being a lover.
It's a really cheap second feature, with some mediocre pacing, and little to recommend it except for Beery -- who sounds like Bluto in the Popeye cartoons -- and Miss Burgess; she wears a harem outfit and does a belly dance that marks this as a real pre-code movie. With little in the way of surprises, either in the plotting or performances, there isn't that much to recommend it, but at least it's only an hour.
It's a really cheap second feature, with some mediocre pacing, and little to recommend it except for Beery -- who sounds like Bluto in the Popeye cartoons -- and Miss Burgess; she wears a harem outfit and does a belly dance that marks this as a real pre-code movie. With little in the way of surprises, either in the plotting or performances, there isn't that much to recommend it, but at least it's only an hour.
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- boblipton
- Sep 29, 2019
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- Gangsters of the Sea
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- Runtime1 hour 1 minute
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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