Destination Unknown (1933)

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Movie
Original title Destination Unknown
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1933
length 66 minutes
Rod
Director Tay Garnett
script Tom Buckingham
production Carl Laemmle Jr.
music W. Franke Harling
camera Edward Snyder
cut Milton Carruth
occupation

Destination Unknown is a 1933 American drama film directed by Tay Garnett, starring Pat O'Brien and Ralph Bellamy as a stowaway.

action

During a storm in the Pacific Ocean, the captain and the first helmsman on the sailing ship Prince Rupert are killed. The surviving crew is disoriented after the storm and the ship's water supplies are controlled by the cold-blooded Matt Brennan. Finally, a stowaway appears who knows other water supplies and navigates the ship to safe areas according to the stars. At the end of the film, he finally disappears without a trace.

reception

Destination Unknown was screened from a 35mm copy at the Museum of Modern Art in 2017 . The film was described as an allegory against the background of the Great Depression, in which the stowaway as a quasi-religious figure saves American society. In a review in the New York Times in 1933, the critic Mordaunt Hall attested the film a certain degree of originality, but the plot was illogical and confusing.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. moma.org
  2. nytimes.com