The Blood Ship
movie

Released July 18, 1927
Genres:
Overview
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. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2007.
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
- no image
Frank Hemphill
as
Second Mate
- no image
Chappell Dossett
as
Rev. Richard Deaken

Blue Washington
as
Negro
