THE GHOST SHIP directed by Mark Robson (USA, 1943)
A ghost ship and, for 50 years, something of a ghost film.
Producer Val Lewton made his name with RKO making financially successful low-budget horror movies like Cat People and I Walked With A Zombie.
The Ghost Ship was scuppered after a legal dispute over the screenplay led to it being withdrawn from theaters only to reappear when it entered the public domain in the 1990s.
From the title you would expect this to be a tale of a haunted vessel but the curse of the Altair comes not from any paranormal activity but from its psychologically deranged captain. Continue reading
