Comedy · Drama
Vessel of Wrath
HE'S GONE TO THE DOGS...And He Likes It!
Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic, Ginger Ted and Miss Jones are sent to an outlying part of the islands to run a hospital; on their return, their motorboat breaks down, and they are marooned overnight on a small island.
Top Cast
Charles Laughton
Ginger Ted
Elsa Lanchester
Martha Jones
Robert Newton
The Controleur
Tyrone Guthrie
Dr Owen Jones
Eliot Makeham
The Native Head Clerk
Dolly Mollinger
Lia
D.A. Ward
Albert
J. Solomon
Sgt. Henrik
Directed by
Erich Pommer
Production
Reviews
CinemaSerf
6/1011/3/2024
Maybe not one of W. Somerset Maugham's more complex stories, but it still gives us a chance to watch Robert Newton, Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester give us a bit of the reverse "Sadie Thompson". It's the unlikable "Ginger Ted" (Laughton) who manages to upset the rather puritanical "Martha" (Lanchester) and her minister-brother "Owen" (Tyrone Guthrie). She demands that local magistrate (Newton) throw the book at him after his latest drunken outburst, but the wily old administrator sees an opportunity to ensure peace breaks out by managing to have the pair stranded on a remote island amidst his Indonesian archipelago - and maybe the two can get past their initial mutual loathing and find some common ground? It's a bit too long, even at ninety minutes, and much of it struggles against a
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