Destination Unknown (1933)
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Original title | Destination Unknown |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1933 |
length | 66 minutes |
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Director | Tay Garnett |
script | Tom Buckingham |
production | Carl Laemmle Jr. |
music | W. Franke Harling |
camera | Edward Snyder |
cut | Milton Carruth |
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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
- Destination Unknown in the Internet Movie Database (English)