Slave Ship (film)

Slave Ship
Directed byTay Garnett
Written byWilliam Faulkner (story)
Screenplay bySam Hellman
Lamar Trotti
Gladys Lehman
Based onThe Last Slaver
by George S. King[1]
Produced byDarryl F. Zanuck
StarringWarner Baxter
Wallace Beery
Elizabeth Allan
Mickey Rooney
George Sanders
Jane Darwell
Joseph Schildkraut
CinematographyErnest Palmer
Edited byLloyd Nosler
Music byAlfred Newman
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • June 12, 1937 (June 12, 1937)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Slave Ship is a 1937 American historical adventure film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery and Elizabeth Allan. The supporting cast features Mickey Rooney, George Sanders, Jane Darwell, and Joseph Schildkraut. It is one of very few films out of the forty-eight that Beery made during the sound era for which he did not receive top billing.

  1. ^ Based upon a historical novel "The Last Slaver" by Dr. George S. King of Bay Shore, New York. Dr King's NY Times obituary