(For the 1929 talkie see The Isle of Lost Ships (1929 film))
The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1923 American silent adventure/melodrama film produced and directed by Maurice Tourneur. It was distributed by Associated First National Pictures. The film is based on the novel The Isle of Dead Ships written by Crittenden Marriott around 1909. In 1929, director Irvin Willat, re-filmed the story.
Maurice Tourneur himself also created a different film with a similar theme called The Ship of Lost Souls in 1929, featuring the young German actress, Marlene Dietrich in the cast.
The 1923 version of the film is believed to be lost, and no longer available.
Cast
Anna Q. Nilsson as Dorothy Fairfax
Milton Sills as Frank Howard
Frank Campeau as Detective Jackson
Walter Long as Peter Forbes
Bert Woodruff as Patrick Joyce
Aggie Herring as Mother Joyce
Herschel Mayall as Captain Clark
Story
The story revolves around people and ships trapped in a section of the southern Atlantic Ocean infested with seaweed, known as the Sargasso Sea.
See also
List of lost films
The Lost Continent (1968). Also set in the Sargasso Sea.
References
External links
L'lle des Naivres Perdus (The Isle of Lost Ships); allmovie.com
Lantern slide for The Isle of Lost Ships...retrieved version from Wayback (archived) Consortium of advertisements for the film, lobby poster, slide, issue of Photoplay magazine