The Blood Ship

{{short description|1927 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Blood Ship | image = The Blood Ship (1927) - 2.jpg | caption = Advertisement | director = George B. Seitz | producer = Harry Cohn | based_on = {{basedon|''The Blood Ship''|Norman Springer}} | writer = Fred Myton | starring = Hobart Bosworth <br> Jacqueline Logan <br> Richard Arlen | cinematography = Harry Davis<br>J.O. Taylor | editing = Columbia Pictures | distributor = Columbia Pictures | released = {{film date|1927|7|18}} | runtime = 7 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }} '''''The Blood Ship''''' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Hobart Bosworth, Jacqueline Logan, and Richard Arlen.<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/85469/Blood-Ship/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104160417/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/85469/Blood-Ship/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 4, 2012 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide |author=Hal Erickson |title=NY Times: The Blood Ship |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2012 |accessdate=June 19, 2011 }}</ref> It is based on the 1922 novel ''The Blood Ship'' by Norman Springer, which was later remade by Seitz as the 1931 sound film ''Shanghaied Love''.<ref>Goble p. 438</ref>

==Plot== A disgraced sea captain signs on as a hand on a cargo ship, which turns out to be captained by the tyrannical man who ruined his reputation. The other crewmen have mostly been shanghaied aboard and are kept in line by the captain and his brutal first mate. The former captain begins to plot a mutiny to take control of the ship from their brutal regime.

==Cast== * Hobart Bosworth as Jim Newman * Jacqueline Logan as Mary Swope Newman * Richard Arlen as John Shreve * Walter James as Capt. Angus Swope * Fred Kohler as First Mate Fitz * James Bradbury Sr. as The Knitting Swede * Arthur Rankin as Nils * Syd Crossley as Cockney Bouncer * Frank Hemphill as Second Mate * Chappell Dossett as Rev. Richard Deaken * Blue Washington as Negro

==Preservation== The seventh and final reel of the film was thought to be lost until 2007.<ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BloodShip1927.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Blood Ship'' |accessdate=June 19, 2011 |work=silentera.com}}</ref><ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.382/default.html The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''The Blood Ship'']</ref> The final reel was ultimately found and the film was screened in its entirety on October 11, 2007.<ref name="imdb">{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017687/ |title=The Blood Ship (1927) IMDb |accessdate=May 12, 2014 |work=IMDb}}</ref> ''The Blood Ship'' was preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in conjunction with Sony Pictures, in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=Preserved Projects|url=https://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=operatihttps://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=blood+ship&filmmaker=&category=All&collection=All|website=Academy Film Archive}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

==External links== {{commons category|The Blood Ship}} *{{IMDb title|id=0017687|title=The Blood Ship}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blood Ship}} Category:1927 films Category:1927 drama films Category:1927 American films Category:1927 English-language films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent feature films Category:Columbia Pictures films Category:Films directed by George B. Seitz Category:American silent drama films Category:Surviving American silent films Category:English-language drama films