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The Sea Wolf is a 1941 American adventure drama film adaptation of Jack London's 1904 novel The Sea-Wolf with Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, and Alexander Knox making his debut in an American film. The film was written by Robert Rossen and directed by Michael Curtiz.
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The Sea Wolf. After being fished out of the sea by a sailing ship, 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.
- (4.5K)
- Adventure, Drama
- Michael Curtiz
- 1941-03-21
Sep 10, 2012 · A superbly malevolent adaptation of Jack London's story about two fugitives (Garfield and Lupino) who come together on a ship, only to find themselves trapped as witnesses to a demonic battle of ...
The Sea Wolf ★★★½ 1941. Jack London's adventure novel about brutal, canny Captain Wolf Larsen (Robinson), his rebellious crew, and some unexpected passengers. Knox and Lupino are shipwreck survivors, picked up by Robinson and forced into working aboard his ship, the aptly named “Ghost.”
Oscar-nominated for special effects, The Sea Wolf is fast-paced and action-packed, featuring high-speed collisions, mutinies, murders, suicides, and shark attacks, all of which are bathed in fog and moonlight and mist, the shadow of death slowly enfolding the ship.
A good commentary track would have helped unpack The Sea Wolf, a property that’s been filmed numerous times since, most recently in 2009. A 1993 TV version, with Charles Bronson as Larsen and Christopher Reeve as Van Weyden, was an okay stab at it, but this is definitive.
