Description:
Ship of the Dead is a 1961 Hungarian vintage first release movie poster.
Ship of the Dead is a 1959 West German film.
Sailor Philip Gale misses his ship and then realizes that his papers have disappeared. Now nameless and without identity, he realizes that without a passport he is no longer a person and has no rights.
After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship's cargo...
Director: Georg Tressler
Writers: Hans Jacoby, Werner Jorg Luddecke, Bruno Traven
Stars: Horst Buchholz, Mario Adorf, Helmut Schmid
(source: imdb.com)
