Le vaisseau fantôme

Titre original : The Ghost Ship

1943
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1h 9min

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Richard Dix in Le vaisseau fantôme (1943)

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Tom Merriam est troisième officier sous le capitaine Stone. Au début, les choses semblent bonnes, Stone voit Merriam comme une version plus jeune de lui-même et Merriam voit Stone comme le p... Tout lireTom Merriam est troisième officier sous le capitaine Stone. Au début, les choses semblent bonnes, Stone voit Merriam comme une version plus jeune de lui-même et Merriam voit Stone comme le premier adulte à le traiter comme un ami.Tom Merriam est troisième officier sous le capitaine Stone. Au début, les choses semblent bonnes, Stone voit Merriam comme une version plus jeune de lui-même et Merriam voit Stone comme le premier adulte à le traiter comme un ami.

Réalisation
- Mark Robson
Scénario
- Donald Henderson Clarke
- Leo Mittler
Casting principal

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6,6/10

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Réalisation
- Mark Robson
Scénario
- Donald Henderson Clarke
- Leo Mittler
Casting principal

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Récompenses
- 2 nominations au total

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Rôles principaux30

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Richard Dix

Will Stone

Russell Wade

Tom Merriam

Edith Barrett

Ellen Roberts

Ben Bard

Bounds

Edmund Glover

Sparks Winslow

Robert Bice

Raphael
(non crédité)

Eddie Borden

Crew Member
(non crédité)

John Burford

Crew Member
(non crédité)

Tom Burton

William Benson
(non crédité)

Harry Clay

Tom McCall
(non crédité)

Alec Craig

Blind Beggar
(non crédité)

Boyd Davis

Charles Roberts
(non crédité)

George DeNormand

John Corbin
(non crédité)

Cliff Edwards

Officer
(non crédité)

Skelton Knaggs

Finn
(non crédité)

Mike Lally

Crew Member
(non crédité)

Sir Lancelot

Billy Radd
(non crédité)

Nolan Leary

Stenographer
(non crédité)

Réalisation
- Mark Robson
Scénario
- Donald Henderson Clarke
- Leo Mittler
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Anecdotes
RKO had built an expensive ship set for their 1938 production Pacific Liner (1939). Val Lewton was given instructions to come up with a film that could use the still-existing set. According to Robert Wise, a longtime collaborator with Lewton, it was this set that gave Lewton the idea for the film. "He would find what we call a 'standing set,' and then tailor his script to the set, whatever it was. That's how he made The Ghost Ship. He walked onto a set and saw a tanker, then cooked up the idea for this ship with a murderous captain." One scholar has suggested that Lewton accepted the assignment in part because, as an amateur sailor himself, the ship captain's behavior mirrored Lewton's own views on how to manage a ship, but also because Lewton saw the plot as a way of criticizing his micro-managing superiors at RKO. The budget, as with all of Lewton's films, was set at $150,000.

Gaffes
One shot of the boat traveling toward camera shows the name of the boat on the bow is backwards. The backwards name reads Venture, indicating it's a shot reused from King Kong (1933) that has been horizontally flipped.

Citations
Finn: [voice over of his internal thoughts in being a mute] The man is dead. With his death, the waters of the sea are open to us. But there will be other deaths, and the agony of dying, before we come to land again.

Connexions
Edited from King Kong (1933)

Bandes originales
Blow the Man Down
(uncredited)
Traditional sea shanty
Performed by Alec Craig
Performed by Sir Lancelot

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8/10

Underrated Lewton

Tom Merriam is a third mate on the Altair, a cargo ship headed by Captain Stone, who Merriam looks to as a father figure, since Stone has the experience and the full loyalty of the crew. Merriam's opinion of his commanding officer is changed after a series of events (including the death of a mate due the captain's interference) and Merriam believes that Stone is unfit to command the ship. A hearing at the ship's port has the crew and line agent side with Stone, and Merriam is relieved of his duties as third mate. While on shore, Merriam is knocked out for trying to stop a fight, and is put back on the Altair much to his and Stone's disapproval. Stone says Merriam is now a guest on the ship, but the crew shuns him and Merriam believes that Stone is going totally insane and plans to kill Merriam, who now has to find someone to believe him before its too late. Underrated (and for a long time, unseen) classic from the Lewton-RKO 9, with above average script, camera-work, cinematography, but highlighted by probably Dix's best performance as Stone, as a man who is insane try to fool himself and those around him by acting normal. Excellent moments of suspense (especially for me when Merriam notices the lock missing from his door) make this a film one to get a hold of. Rating, 8.