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Slave Ship (1937)
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Writers:
George S. King (novel) and
William Faulkner (story)
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Release Date:
8 October 1937 (Denmark) more
Plot:
Captain Lovett ordered his first mate Thompson to get rid of his slave-trading crew and get a more respectable bunch for standard shipping... more | add synopsis
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Slave trade without the Spielberg spin job. True history. more (4 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Warner Baxter | ... | Jim Lovett |
 | Wallace Beery | ... | Jack Thompson |
| Elizabeth Allan | ... | Nancy Marlowe |
 | Mickey Rooney | ... | Swifty |
| George Sanders | ... | Lefty |
| Jane Darwell | ... | Mrs. Marlowe |
| Joseph Schildkraut | ... | Danelo |
| Miles Mander | ... | Corey |
| Arthur Hohl | ... | Grimes |
| Douglas Scott | ... | Boy |
| Minna Gombell | ... | Mabel |
| Billy Bevan | ... | Atkins |
| Francis Ford | ... | Scraps |
| Jane Jones | ... | Ma Belcher |
| J. Farrell MacDonald | ... | Proprietor |
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100 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #3047)
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Referenced in Barton Fink (1991) more
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Lilly Dale more
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WARNER BAXTER is a Yankee sea captain who goes to church on Sundays and shyly courts pretty Elizabeth Allen as time permits. His cargo happens to be slaves purchased in West Africa for sale in America. In this movie, slaves are purchased matter-of-factly from Black Africans, get some brutal treatment on board (but not much), and the crew is happy with their work and waay dirty too. None of the slaves are portrayed as brilliant or courageous. Trouble comes when throwing the "evidence" overboard becomes an issue between the captain and the crew. Since this film was made 60 years ago, it's blessedly free of the Political Correctness spin job which sunk "Amistead." It simply never occurred to Hollywood back then to re-write history to conform to wacky leftist viewpoints which distort facts. Obviously Hollywood today is in a tizzy over the "slavery issue" and thus dozens of films like this one and such as Walt Disney's wonderful "Song of the South" --- a film depicting only former slaves --- are kept out of sight. Hush!