Publication Date: 1961
Seller: Budapest Poster Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Art / Print / Poster
Paper, offset lithography. Size: A1 1 Sheet (cca. 84 x 59 cm). Ship of the Dead is a 1961 Hungarian vintage first release movie poster Ship of the Dead is a 1959 West German film Sailor Philip Gale misses his ship and then realizes that his papers have disappeared Now nameless and without identity he realizes that without a passport he is no longer a person and has no rights After a line of mischief Philip Gale an American sailor is lured into hiring on the Yorikke a tramp cargo by Lawski a stoker from Poland Still the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned the Yorikke is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship work is close to slavery and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship s cargo Director Georg Tressler Writers Hans Jacoby Werner Jorg Luddecke Bruno Traven Stars Horst Buchholz Mario Adorf Helmut Schmid source imdb com Fine, light fold marks and wear, small tears and holes.