

Vessel of Wrath
1938, English. Directed by Erich Pommer.
HE'S GONE TO THE DOGS...And He Likes It!
Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic, Ginger Ted and Miss Jones are sent to an outlying part of the islands to run a hospital; on their return, their motorboat breaks down, and they are marooned overnight on a small island.
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- Released
- 4 March 1938
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Written by
- Bartlett Cormack, W. Somerset Maugham
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Vessel of Wrath (1938) was directed by Erich Pommer and stars Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton.