(For the 1929 talkie see The Isle of Lost Ships (1929 film))
The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1923 American silent adventure/melodrama film produced and directed by Maurice Tourneur. It was distributed by Associated First National Pictures.American Film Institute Catalog: Feature Films 1921-30, p. 387, by The American Film Institute, c.1971 The film is based on the novel The Isle of Dead Ships written by Crittenden Marriott around 1909. In 1929, director Irvin Willat, re-filmed the story.The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Isle of Lost ShipsProgressive Silent Film List: The Isle of Lost Ships at silentera.com
Maurice Tourneur himself also created a different film with a similar theme called The Ship of Lost Souls in 1929, featuring the young German actress, Marlene Dietrich in the cast.Progressive Silent Film List: The Isle of Lost Ships at silentera.com
The 1923 version of the film is believed to be lost, and no longer available.The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:The Isle of Lost Ships(Wayback Machine)
Cast Anna Q. Nilsson as Dorothy Fairfax Milton Sills as Frank Howard Frank Campeau as Detective Jackson Walter Long as Peter Forbes Bert Woodruff as Patrick Joyce Aggie Herring as Mother Joyce Herschel Mayall as Captain Clark
Story The story revolves around people and ships trapped in a section of the southern Atlantic Ocean infested with seaweed, known as the Sargasso Sea.
See also List of lost films The Lost Continent (1968). Also set in the Sargasso Sea.
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L'lle des Naivres Perdus (The Isle of Lost Ships); allmovie.com Lantern slide for The Isle of Lost Ships...retrieved version from Wayback (archived) Consortium of advertisements for the film, lobby poster, slide, issue of Photoplay magazine