The Wreck Of The Hesperus.

Duration: 7 reels

Year Published: 1938

Format: 35mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: A young sea captain brings to an end the nefarious undertakings of a man who causes shipwrecks in order to profit from the salvage; Gloucester in 1830 provides the setting.

Complete Record: THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1948. 7 reels, sd., b&w, 35mm. Suggested by a story by Edward Huebsch. Title from the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Summary: A young sea captain brings to an end the nefarious undertakings of a man who causes shipwrecks in order to profit from the salvage; Gloucester in 1830 provides the setting. Credits: Producer, Wallace MacDonald; director, John Hoffman; script, Aubrey Wisberg; music director, Mischa Bakaleinikoff; film editor, James Sweeney. Cast: Willard Parker, Edgar Buchanan, Patricia White. © Columbia Pictures Corp.; 22Mar38; LP1513.