USA, 1943
69m
35mm film, black and white, 1.37:1
mono, English
An American horror film directed by Mark Robson.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Mark Robson
Copyright MCMLKIII [1943] RKO Radio Pictures Inc
An RKO Radio Picture. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. present
Produced by: Val Lewton
Screen Play by: Donald Henderson Clarke
Story by: Leo Mittler
Assistant Director: Ruby Rosenberg
Director of Photography: Nicholas Musuraca
Edited by: John Lockert
Music by: Roy Webb
Musical Director: C. Bakaleinikoff
Recorded by: Francis M. Sarver
RCA Sound System
Gowns: Edward Stevenson
Special Effects by: Vernon L. Walker
Art Directors: Albert S. D’Agostino, Walter E. Keller
Set Decorations: Darrell Silvera, Claude Carpenter
Cast
Richard Dix (Captain Will Stone)
Russell Wade (Tom Merriam)
Edith Barrett (Ellen Roberts)
Ben Bard (First Officer Bowns)
Edmund Glover (Jacob ‘Sparks’ Winslow)
Alternative Titles
Aavelaiva – Finland
El barco fantasma – Spain
Spökskeppet – Sweden
El vaixell fantasma – Spain (Catalan)
References
Periodicals
- American Classic Screen vol.7 no.3 (May/June 1983) p.28-32 – article
- Film Making August 1977 p.59 – illustrated Super 8mm version review (Collecting S-8 by Gerald McKee)
- Kinematograph Weekly no.1922 (17 February 1944)
- The Missing Link no.4 (Autumn 1995) p.8 – review (Film reviews)
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.48 no.570 (July 1981) p.145
- Motion Picture Herald vol.153 no.11 (11 December 1943)
- Today’s Cinema vol.62 no.4995 (16 February 1944)
- We Belong Dead no.29 (Autumn 2021) pp.30-31 – illustrated article (Ansel’s asylum for the psychotronic No.3 by Ansel Faraj)
Books
- Armchair Cinema: A History of Feature Films on British Television, 1929-1981 by Sheldon Hall p.357n
- Aspects of Fantasy: Selected Essays from the Second International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film by William Coyle (ed.) pp.95-106 – essay (Children of Horror: The Films of Val Lewton by J.P. Telotte)
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror by Phil Hardy (ed.) pp.81-82
- Caligari’s Children: The Film as Tale of Terror by Siegbert Solomon Prawer p.34
- A Critical Guide to Horror Film Series by Ken Hanke pp.148; 153
- Ghosts and Angels in Hollywood Films by James Robert Parish p.134 – credits
- Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.152
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.161 – credits
- The RKO Features by James L. Neibaur p.104 – credits, synopsis
- RKO Radio Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1929-1956 by Michael R. Pitts p.128-130
