SOULS AT SEA.
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✎ Suggest a correctionProduced by Paramount pictures in 1937. Gary Cooper and George Raft in a realistic picture of the slave-trade days, based on the famous court trial of a British government agent. Also a study of life at sea in the days of sailing ships. Directed by Henry Hathaway famous for his Lives of a Bengal Lancer
The story is based on two distinct early 19th-century themes: the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade, and the often tragic fate of people on ships lost at sea. The first theme is examined through the efforts of abolitionists Michael "Nuggin" Taylor (Cooper) and Powdah (Raft) to end the slave trade. The second theme appears when the Taylor-Wilcoxon conflict becomes entangled with the loss of the ship William Brown (named after an actual ship of the period with a similar fate)
The story is based on two distinct early 19th-century themes: the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade, and the often tragic fate of people on ships lost at sea. The first theme is examined through the efforts of abolitionists Michael "Nuggin" Taylor (Cooper) and Powdah (Raft) to end the slave trade. The second theme appears when the Taylor-Wilcoxon conflict becomes entangled with the loss of the ship William Brown (named after an actual ship of the period with a similar fate)
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SOULS AT SEA. Presented by Adolph Zukor. 1937. 10 reels, sd. Credits: Director, Henry Hathaway; story, Ted Lesser; screenplay, Grover Jones, Dale Van Every; editor, Ellsworth Hoagland; original music, Roland Anderson; music director, Boris Morros. Paramount Pictures, Inc.; 3Sep37; LP7396.
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- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, genre, credits, catalog record
- Educational Film Guide 1946 — title, year, creator, length, format, sound, description, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q280470 ↗ — color, country
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