The Sea Wolf
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| Warner Bros. | Release Date: March 21, 1941 |
Starring:
Alexander Knox, Barry Fitzgerald, David Bruce, Edward G. Robinson, Francis McDonald, Gene Lockhart, Howard Da Silva, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Stanley Ridges
Summary:
After being fished out of the sea by a sailer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.
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Curtiz was a master of all genres but The Sea Wolf is his best. Darkly flirting with the noir genre that would capture the decade, there's so much tension and hostility, secrets and lies that permeate the ship. Ida Lupino has never been more beautiful as the criminal attempting to rewrite her past.
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The Sea Wolf is a triumph of studio filmmaking. [22 Oct 2017, p.11]
Given Robert Rossen's strikingly literate script, Sol Polito's wonderfully eerie camerawork, and Robinson's terrific performance - all pulling together to elaborate the Luciferian motto borrowed from Milton by which the captain lives, 'Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven' - this is one of Curtiz's best movies.
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The best of several film versions of Jack London's story about a Nazi-like sea captain (Edward G. Robinson in top form), this Warner Bros. production co-stars Ida Lupino and John Garfield and was directed by Michael Curtiz, shortly before he made "Casablanca." [26 Dec 1991, p.E1]
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