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Ship of the Dead is a Allemand film of genre Drama with Horst Buchholz

Ship of the Dead (1959)

Das Totenschiff

Ship of the Dead
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Length 1h38
OriginGerman
Genres Drama,    Adventure
Rating67% 3.379343.379343.379343.379343.37934

The Death Ship (German: Das Totenschiff) is a 1959 West German adventure film directed by Georg Tressler and starring Horst Buchholz, Mario Adorf, Helmut Schmid, and Elke Sommer. The film is based on the book of the same name by B. Traven, author of The Treasure of Sierra Madre, and was filmed in Mexico.

Synopsis

A group of outcast men drift around the world, never settling down or being accepted. They encounter various adventures around the globe, including being forced to work on a decrepit ship.

Actors

Horst Buchholz

(Philip Gale, Amerikanischer Seeman)Mario Adorf

(Lawski, Polnischer Kohlenschlepper)Helmut Schmid

(Martin, Heizer auf der Yorikke)Elke Sommer

(Mylène Loureau)Karl Lieffen

(belgischer Kripobeamter)
And :
Albert Bessler
Günter Meisner
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