The Mutiny of the Elsinore | |
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Directed by | Roy Lockwood |
Written by | Beaufoy Milton Walter Summers |
Based on | The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London |
Produced by | John Argyle |
Starring |
Lyn Harding Paul Lukas Kathleen Kelly |
Cinematography | Bryan Langley |
Edited by | F.H. Bickerton |
Music by | Guy Jones |
Production company | John Argyle Productions |
Distributed by | Associated British Film Distributors |
Release date | 3 September 1937 |
Running time | 79 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Mutiny of the Elsinore is a 1937 British action film directed by Roy Lockwood and starring Lyn Harding, Paul Lukas and Kathleen Kelly. [1] The screenplay concerns a mutiny on a ship against a brutal captain. It was an adaptation of the 1914 novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London. It was shot at Welwyn Studios in Hertfordshire. [2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Duncan Sutherland.
Following a mutiny on a ship against a brutal mate, a writer who happens to be aboard as a passenger is asked to take over after the murder of the Captain.