THE SEA WOLF.
Edward G Robinson & Alexander Knox,
Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Gene Lockhart.
Dir: Michael Curtiz, 1941, Warner Bros.

SYNOPSIS:
Edward G Robinson puts on his grinning, grimacing nutter face playing a mentally unhinged sailor bloke. Why did they never put him in a pirate flick ("I'm Captain Blood, see!")?

"Robinson had several reasons for the choice: the story on which it is based, by Jack London, had been a personal favourite when he was a young boy. Also, he thought that the film was an allegory for what was happening in Nazi Germany. His character is the skipper of a mysterious ship, a cruel, heartless slave-driving man, who is, in many ways, a personification of evil."
- Alan Gansberg, E G Robinson biographer.

REVIEWS:
"A Germanic, powerful work almost devoid of compromise."
- Charles Higham.
"Much filmed action suspenser which in this version looks great but overdoes the talk."
- Leslie Halliwell.