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The Sea Wolf (1941)
I love a good seafaring movie. There's just something about a ship on the sea, that sends the imagination soaring. In a way the ocean is like the vastness of the universe and a sailing ship is adrift in a strange world, where nature and not man commands.
Edward G. Robinson is one of the greats! He's equally at home playing a sadistic power mad sea captain or a more, quiet reflective man, which was closer to his true personality. Eddie makes this movie, he was my favorite by far. He showed a complexity to the Captain that made him much more compelling than had he just been a purely evil man.
John Garfield and a brooding Ida Lupino on the deck of The Sea Wolf.
I'm not the biggest fan of John Garfield, I think he's limited in his acting range, sometimes he's cast in a film where his abilities can soar, but not here. I found him two-dimensional and the script doesn't help him either, as we never learn why he's so angry!...well except that he's John Garfield and he's always angry!
I didn't really care for Ida Lupino here either. Maybe it's the script but she doesn't add much and her romance with Garfield seemed to come out of the blue. I read that Ida Lupino urged the screen writer to include romance scenes for her with Garfield, perhaps that's why they seem not to fit the movie.
I did like Alexander Knox who looked like Humphrey Bogart, so I was amused when I learned his characters first name was indeed Humphrey. He looked like Boogie but reminded me of Leslie Howard, who was Bogie's best friend. So that's an odd coincidences.
But..besides all of the film's short comings, I still liked it as it had the great Eddie Robinson and the ship scenes really looked good.
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The Sea Wolf (1941)
Director: Michael Curtiz
Writers: Jack London (novel), Robert Rossen (screenplay)
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Writers: Jack London (novel), Robert Rossen (screenplay)
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield
Genre: Drama, Adventure
"After being fished out of the sea by a sealer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny."
I love a good seafaring movie. There's just something about a ship on the sea, that sends the imagination soaring. In a way the ocean is like the vastness of the universe and a sailing ship is adrift in a strange world, where nature and not man commands.
Edward G. Robinson is one of the greats! He's equally at home playing a sadistic power mad sea captain or a more, quiet reflective man, which was closer to his true personality. Eddie makes this movie, he was my favorite by far. He showed a complexity to the Captain that made him much more compelling than had he just been a purely evil man.
John Garfield and a brooding Ida Lupino on the deck of The Sea Wolf.
I'm not the biggest fan of John Garfield, I think he's limited in his acting range, sometimes he's cast in a film where his abilities can soar, but not here. I found him two-dimensional and the script doesn't help him either, as we never learn why he's so angry!...well except that he's John Garfield and he's always angry!
I didn't really care for Ida Lupino here either. Maybe it's the script but she doesn't add much and her romance with Garfield seemed to come out of the blue. I read that Ida Lupino urged the screen writer to include romance scenes for her with Garfield, perhaps that's why they seem not to fit the movie.
I did like Alexander Knox who looked like Humphrey Bogart, so I was amused when I learned his characters first name was indeed Humphrey. He looked like Boogie but reminded me of Leslie Howard, who was Bogie's best friend. So that's an odd coincidences.
But..besides all of the film's short comings, I still liked it as it had the great Eddie Robinson and the ship scenes really looked good.
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