The Sea Ghost (1915)
The crew of the tramp brig "Annabelle" fish up from the sea a sealed bottle and take it to their captain, John Gordon. The bottle contains a letter from Frederick Keyes, who has been shipwrecked with his daughter Grace on a small circular island. Keyes offers to divide a vast fortune in gold, found in a cave on the island with his rescuer, whoever he may be. Gordon shows the letter to First Mate Merrill who is a cold-blooded schemer. Merrill, who cares nothing about reining the castaways, only for the gold, thinks if he were in charge of the ship the gold would be his and immediately thinks up a plan to rid himself of John. He bribes the crew to mutiny and John is put in a sealed cask and the Annabelle is wrecked. The crew is rescued by a freighter after a terrible storm and fitting up another boat, Merrill and his crew return in search of the island. In the meantime the cask containing John is washed upon the shore of the island on which Keyes and Grace are stranded and John is saved from a terrible death. After a few days the castaways see a ship under full sail making for their island. They are jubilant until John, through the glasses, discovers that the commander of the ship is Merrill. He tells Keyes and Grace that if Merrill finds him it will mean death to them all and decides to conceal himself for the time being and wait for an opportunity. Merrill and his crew land and Merrill instructs his men to take the chest of gold and Grace to the boat, saying that the old man will stay on the island. That night the ship prepares to sail and John forms a desperate plan to board it secretly. He and Keyes take an old tree trunk, and with rough-hewn oars, paddle out to the boat, catch hold of the anchor and chains, and standing on the log, pull themselves up. As John appears on deck he presents a weird sight, covered with seaweed and when Merrill sees him he thinks he is John's ghost and in an agony of fear jumps overboard. John proceeds to the ship's bridge. The steersman is alone and gives a wild shriek as he sees John. He runs to the men's quarters screaming, "Captain Cordon has come back." John follows him, and looking sternly at the men says he will shoot the first one who does not give his word to obey him. The men see that John means what he says, and shaken and awed, they are completely cowed. John assumes command of the ship and they sail away, homeward bound.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Richard Stanton | Director |
| C. Gardner Sullivan | Writer |
| Thomas H. Ince | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Arthur Maude | |
| Patricia Palmer | |
| J.P. Lockney | |
| Joseph J. Dowling |
