At first, all seems well and Merriam bonds with the captain, Will Stone ( Richard Dix). Tom Merriam (Russell Wade), a young merchant marine officer, joins the crew of the ship Altair. It was not until the film's copyright was not renewed and it entered the public domain in the 1990s, that it began to be available again, and was released as part of the Val Lewton Horror Collection DVD set in 2005.
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Because of the suit, The Ghost Ship was withdrawn from theatrical release and not shown for nearly 50 years. Golding and Norbert Faulkner, who claimed that the script was based on a play that was submitted to Lewton for a possible film. In February 1944, Lewton was sued for plagiarism by playwrights Samuel R. Upon its theatrical release on Christmas Eve, 1943, the film was a box office success but received a mixed critical reception. The ship's crew, however, believes the vessel to be haunted and cursed and several mysterious deaths occur. The film is about a young merchant marine officer who begins to suspect that his ship's captain is mentally unbalanced and endangering the lives of the ship's crew.
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The film can be seen as a "low-key psychological thriller", a "suspense drama", and a "waterlogged melodrama".
#Ghost ship series
It was produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures as part of a series of low-budget horror films. The Ghost Ship is a 1943 American black-and-white psychological thriller film, with elements of mystery and horror, directed by Mark Robson, starring Richard Dix and featuring Russell Wade, Edith Barrett, Ben Bard and Edmund Glover, along with Skelton Knaggs.