Death Ship
Death Ship is a 1980 horror film directed by Alvin Rakoff and starring Richard Crenna, George Kennedy, Nick Mancuso, Sally Ann Howes, Kate Reid, Victoria Burgoyne, and Saul Rubinek in an early role. The screenplay by John Robins was based on a story by Jack Hill and David P. Lewis.
Plot
Prickly Captain Ashland is leading his cruise ship on his final voyage, attended by his replacement Trevor Marshall, who has brought along his family. In the middle of the night following a routine Caribbean route, their radar detects a mysterious black freighter on a collision course that matches their heading regardless of evasive maneuvers. Despite Ashland's best efforts, the boats collide, sinking the cruise ship and taking with it most of her crew and passengers.
More details
| author | Jack Hill |
|---|---|
| director | Alvin Rakoff |
| editor | Mike Campbell |
| events | seamanship supernatural |
| genre | horror |
| keywords | adolf hitler attack capture cargo ship caribbean chain locker chill collision course cruise liner cruise ship crush cut deform drift eat everything is rhythm explore freighter horst-wessel-lied injured jump kill knock out kriegsmarine life raft lifeboat love interest machine movie projector nazi nazi germany newsreel footage passenger ship pierce possess prison ship rack and pinion rescue search set up speak steering gear stern swing trap |
| musicBy | Ivor Slaney |
| producer | Derek Gibson Harold Greenberg |
| productionCompany | Bloodstar Films Bloodstar Productions |
| publisher | Astral Media |
| recordedAt | Alabama |
| theme | ghost |