Ship of Lost Men

(1929)

Adventure / Drama / Thriller

Country: Finland

aka "Grischa, the Cook"

Directed by Maurice Tourneur

Cast:

Marlene Dietrich as Ethel Marley 
Fritz Kortner as Captain Fernando Vela 
Robin Irvine as William 'T.W.' Cheyne 
Vladimir Sokoloff as Grischa, the Cook 
Gaston Modot as Morain, the escaped convict 
Boris de Fast as Tattooed sailor 
Feodor Schaliapin Jr. as Nick  
Max Maximilian as Tom Butley 
Fritz Alberti as The captain of the luxury liner 
Robert Garrison as The landlord

Vela is the sarcastic captain of a slow ship carrying fugitives out of Germany. Cheyne is a young American doctor who is captured for a 3-month voyage to Brazil. He rescues a beautiful American heiress named Ethel Marley in the middle of the ocean. The ship’s cook keeps her hidden from the crew. Problems arise for Cheyne and Ethel as murder and mutiny creeps on them.