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BFI identifier
50228

Title

Vessel of Wrath (Original)

The Beachcomber (Alternative)

Date
1938 (Release)

EIDR identifier

10.5240/BAB5-011C-65E2-8696-922F-A

Production country
United Kingdom
Production company
Mayflower Pictures Corporation
Synopsis
A beachcomber in Malaya is brought into close contact with the commissioner's sister during an epidemic and they end up married and respectable. (Synopsis)

Category

Fiction

Genre
Comedy
Drama
Credits
Director: Erich Pommer
Production Company: Mayflower Pictures Corporation
Producer: Erich Pommer
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Cast
Charles Laughton (Edward C. "Ginger Ted" Wilson)
Elsa Lanchester (Miss Martha Jones)
Tyrone Guthrie (reverend Owen Jones)
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Collections
Film / Video
35mm BW Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
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Scripts / Documents
Music Cue Sheet (Special Collections) - MUS-1444
Script - Original story: Based on the story by W. Somerset Maugham - SCR-18487
Script - Original story: Based on the story by W. Somerset Maugham - SCR-18488
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-50228
Medium pressbook held. Music cue sheet held. See TEDDY BAIRD Collection List and for example of publicity see PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANY MATERIAL List (Associated British).
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Stills
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1494208
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1494209
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1494210
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1494211
Photograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-1494212
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Articles
Kinematograph Weekly n2191 28 Apr 1949
Picture-Play Magazine February 1939
Kinematograph Weekly n1611 3 Mar 1938

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Hierarchy Display

+Vessel of Wrath
Work - 50228 - 1938 (Release)

United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
- VESSEL OF WRATH (1938)
  Item - C-574763 - Film - Viewing
  
  35mm - BW Positive - Combined
- VESSEL OF WRATH (1938)
  Item - C-184708 - Film - Master
  
  - BW Positive - Combined
- VESSEL OF WRATH (1938)
  Item - C-184710 - Film - Master
  
  - Negative - Sound
- VESSEL OF WRATH (1938)
  Item - C-184711 - Film - Master
  
  - Original Negative - Mute
- VESSEL OF WRATH (1938)
  Item - C-184703 - Film - Master
  
  16mm - Dupe Reversal BW Positive - Combined
- VESSEL OF WRATH (1938)
  Item - C-184705 - Film - Master
  
  35mm - BW Positive - Combined
- VESSEL OF WRATH (1938)
  Item - C-184712 - Film - Master
  
  35mm - Dupe Negative - Combined as Mute
- VESSEL OF WRATH (1938)
  Item - C-184709 - Film - Master
  
  35mm - Duplicating Positive - Mute
- VESSEL OF WRATH (1938)
  Item - C-184707 - Film - Master
  
  35mm - Master Positive - Sound
- VESSEL OF WRATH (1938)
  Item - C-531819 - Film - Master
  
  35mm - Re-recorded Negative - Sound