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Released November 28, 1934
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
Columbia
84.75 min. (Feature Film)

A reluctant Captain who'd rather be piloting a barge, and his busy-body steward, command a cruise ship to Panama. Several storylines revolve around the passengers... A retired cop, now a private detective, tails the bond thief that has always eluded him, and falls for the crook's partner-in-crime and fiance. An alcoholic has-been actor running away from the society woman who loves him. A social-climbing man, ashamed of his ex-call girl wife. An exiled Panamanian general, who leaves his family to return to Panama and command a planned coup. And, a no-nonsense widow who befriends them all.

The Three Stooges appear as the ship's lounge musicians. Their screentime is limited to background players in a handful of scenes, and only Larry enjoys a few lines of dialogue.

The film premiered with a running time of 103 minutes, but was cut to 85 minutes for its general release. Many of the cast members listed do not appear in the released version, victims of the edited 18 minutes. Survivng bits of business between the Stooges and costar Arthur Treacher imply that they had an earlier setup scene, lost to editing.

John Gilbert was one of the greatest leading men of the 1920s, starring in films like MGM's THE BIG PARADE (1925). A soured relationship with Greta Garbo, disagreements with MGM chief Louis B. Mayer, and Gilbert's alcoholism combined to make him a liability in Mayer's eyes. After a couple box-office disappointments, MGM's publicity machine circulated the untrue story that Gilbert's voice was not suitable for sound films, and John found himself in supporting roles. Garbo used her influence to cast him as her costar in the pre-code QUEEN CHRISTINA (1933), but the Hays office's objections to the film gave MGM the reason it wanted to terminate his contract. After a few more roles, including Columbia's THE CAPTAIN HATES THE SEA (1934), depression, stress and alcoholism led to Gilbert's death from a heart attack in 1936.

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CAPTAIN HATES THE SEA, THE on IMDb

Walter Connolly
Captain Helquist

Leon Errol
Layton, ship's steward

John Gilbert
Steve Bramley

G. Pat Collins
Mr. Donlin

Akim Tamiroff
General Salazaro

Victor McLaglen
Julius 'Sarge' Schulte

Wynne Gibson
Mrs. Jeddock

John Wray
Mr. Jeddock

Arthur Treacher
Major Warringforth

Helen Vinson
Janet Grayson

Fred Keating
Danny Checkett

Emily Fitzroy
Mrs. Griswold

Claude Gillingwater
Judge Griswold

Alison Skipworth
Mrs. McGruder

Donald Meek
Josephus Bushmills

Walter Catlett
Joe Silvers, bartender

Larry Fine
Bartosh, orchestra musician

Moe Howard
Orchestra musician

Jerry Howard
Orchestra musician

Fred Santley
Reporter

Fred Howard
Reporter

Ray Turner
Sam, Bramley's chauffeur

Tala Birell
Gerta Klargi

A. R. Haysel
Private detective

Tamara Shayne
Mrs. Salazaro

George Villasenor
Andrecito Salazaro

B. B. Creary
Quartermaster

Franco Corsaro
Ship's officer

Robert Cauterio
Ship's officer

Emmett Vogan
Ship's doctor

Luis Alberni
Juan Gilboa

Serge Temoff
Captain of the firing squad

Lew Davis
Deck steward

Fred Watt
Deck steward

Jay Eaton
Passenger

Maude Truax
Passenger

Gladys Gale
Passenger

Larry Wheat
Passenger

Harry Holman
Passenger

Dell Henderson
Mr. Holman

Geneva Mitchell
Miss Hockson

Lowden Adams
1st butler

Pietro Sosso
2nd butler

Edmund Burns
Assistant jeweler

George Humbert
Head barber

Heinie Conklin
Assistant bartender

Budd Fine
Keeper

Harry Tenbrook
Taxi driver

Charles King
Taxi driver

Charles Sullivan
Taxi driver

Jim Farley
Conductor

Charles R. Moore
Train porter

Frank Conroy
State's Attorney, scene deleted

Unidentified THE CAPTAIN HATES THE SEA 7
Deck and gangplank passengers


Wallace Smith
Screenplay

Arnold Belgard
Continuity

Joseph August
Photography

Gene Milford
Film Editor

George Cooper
Sound Engineer

Louis Silvers
Original Music

Robert Kalloch
Costume Design

Nate Watt
Assistant Director


















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