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The Isle of Lost Ships (1923 film)

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('For the 1929 talkie see The Isle of Lost Ships (1929 film)')

'The Isle of Lost Ships' is a 1923 American silent adventure/melodrama film directed and produced by Maurice Tourneur and distributed by Associated First National Pictures.'American Film Institute Catalog': Feature Films 1921-30, p. 387, by The American Film Institute, c.1971 The film is based on Crittenden Marriott's novel '[http://malcolmlowryatthe19thhole.blogspot.com/2011/01/isle-of-lost-ships.html The Isle of Dead Ships]' c.1909. The story was re-filmed in 1929 by director Irvin Willat.[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=&Movie=9971 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: 'The Isle of Lost Ships'][http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/I/IsleOfLostShips1923.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'The Isle of Lost Ships'] at silentera.com

Tourneur himself made a different story with similar theme called 'The Ship of Lost Souls' (1929) which had a young German actress, Marlene Dietrich, in the cast.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/I/IsleOfLostShips1923.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'The Isle of Lost Ships'] at silentera.com

The 1923 film has long since been thought to be lost.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6536/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:'The Isle of Lost Ships']

Cast



*Anna Q. Nilsson as Dorothy Fairfax

*Milton Sills as Frank Howard

*Frank Campeau as Detective Jackson

*Walter Long as Peter Forbes

*Bert Woodruff as Patrick Joyce

*Aggie Herring as Mother Joyce

*Herschel Mayall as Captain Clark

Story



People and ships trapped in seaweed infested section of the southern Atlantic Ocean known as the Sargasso Sea.

See also



*List of lost films

* 'The Lost Continent' (1968). Also set in the Sargasso Sea.

References




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