Details

Release year: 1958

Storyline

A band of dishonest seamen plan a murderous mutiny aboard the S.S. Berwind.

Top credits

Directors

Andrew L. Stone

Writers

Andrew L. Stone

Cast

James Mason — Capt. Edwin Rummill
Dorothy Dandridge — Mahia
Broderick Crawford — Henry Scott
Stuart Whitman — Leroy Martin

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Did you know

• There is no music or any score in the movie until the very end. Until then, all the ambient sounds are ship noises.

• The movie is introduced as based on a true story, and there was indeed a mysterious and bloody mutiny aboard a ship also named the Berwind, occurring in the year 1905. Per the news account of the time, the captain of the real Berwind was the similarly named "E.B. Rumill," and the probable mutineer was named Henry Scott, names also used in the movie.

• Filming took place in southern California aboard the Chios, Greece-registered SS Igor (originally the SS Philip C. Shera), a World War II Liberty Ship launched in December 1943 and then owned by the Los and Pezas ship owning families. She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1969.