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The Isle of Lost Ships (1929 film)

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'The Isle of Lost Ships' is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a Vitaphone track of effects and music. The picture was produced by Richard A. Rowland and distributed by Warner Bros. Irvin Willat was the director with Jason Robards Sr., Virginia Valli and Noah Beery Sr. in the leads. It is based on the 1909 novel 'The Isle of Dead Ships' by Crittenden Marriott, and is also a remake of Maurice Tourneur's now lost 1923 classic of the same name. This film is preserved at the Library of Congress.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/I/IsleOfLostShips1929.html 'The Isle of Lost Ships' at silentera.com]'The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30' by The American Film Institute, c.1971[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=9972 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..'The Isle of Lost Ships']'Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress' (<-book title) page 90 by The American Film Institute, c.1978[https://archive.org/details/mediahistory&tab=collection?and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22Motion%20pictures%20--%20Catalogues%22 1957 MOVIES FROM AAP Warner Bros Features & Cartoons SALES BOOK DIRECTED AT TV]

Cast



*Jason Robards Sr. as Frank Howard

*Virginia Valli as Dorothy Whitlock/Renwick

*Noah Beery Sr. as Captain Peter Forbes

*Clarissa Selwynne as Aunt Emma/Mrs. Renwick

*Robert Emmett O'Connor as Jackson

*Harry Cording as Gallagher

*Margaret Fielding as Mrs. Gallagher

*Kathrin Clare Ward as Mother Joyce/Burke

*Robert Homans as Mr. Burke

*Jack Ackroyd as Harry

*Sam Baker as Himself

See also



* List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features

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

References




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