Line #13 Film/TheSinShip


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3	''The Sin Ship'' is a 1931 film directed by Louis Wolheim.
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5	Wolheim also stars as Captain Sam [=McVeigh=], a roughnecked, hard-drinking merchant marine captain. [=McVeigh=] has just pulled in to San Diego when he is approached by a missionary, Rev. Marsden. Rev. Marsden asks for passage to Central America so he can go on a mission. [=McVeigh=] agrees, mainly because he likes the looks of Marsden's lovely wife Kitty (Creator/MaryAstor).
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7	Sam corners Kitty in his cabin and demands sex. She gives him a scornful speech in which she demands that he "Clean up your mind! And your soul!" Moved by her example, Sam decides to turn over a new leaf and live a righteous life. What he doesn't know is that Marsden and Kitty are frauds. In fact, they are criminals, who are on the lam after they robbed a bank.
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9	Louis Wolheim's last film, and the only one he directed. It came out two months after Wolheim died of stomach cancer.
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14	* AlcoholHic: Charlie the drunken mate is hiccuping as he hangs out with Sam in the main cabin.
15	* CallingMeALogarithm: [=McVeigh=] asks how to start an apology letter to Kitty. Charlie suggests "Dear Madam." [=McVeigh=] nearly punches him, because he thinks Charlie is calling Kitty a MissKitty.
16	* CelebrityParadox: Kitty, cackling with derision, tells Marsden that [=McVeigh=] tried "the Hairy Ape routine" on her. Louis Wolheim's big break was starring in a production of Creator/EugeneONeill's ''The Hairy Ape''.
17	* ChekhovsGunman: The rotund American tourist seen checking into the hotel in one scene. He turns out to be a detective on Marsden's trail.
18	* DramaticIrony: A lot of this after the audience finds out the truth about Marsden but [=McVeigh=] doesn't know it. Like when he says that Marsden must be a great guy to have a wife like Kitty, or when [=McVeigh=] says "I wish I was like him!"
19	* TheDrunkenSailor: Charlie, [=McVeigh=]'s first mate, is drunk in every scene.
20	* IWillWaitForYou: [=McVeigh=] says "I will wait for you forever" after Kitty suggests that she has to go to jail, but maybe he can be there when she gets out.
21	* InternalReveal: It's revealed to the audience about 15 minutes in that Marsden and Kitty are criminals on the lam. [=McVeigh=] does not find out until much later.
22	* KilledOffscreen: Kitty, locked in her room, hears two gunshots. Thinking [=McVeigh=] was shot, she climbs out the window and down to the street, only to find out that Marsden made a run for it and the detective shot him.
23	* LegFocus: "Reverend" Marsden approaches Sam in a bar and asks if he can get passage to Central America. [=McVeigh=] is considering this when he looks out the bat wing doors of the bar and sees Kitty's calves and high heels under the door. He agrees.
24	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kitty responds to Sam's crude demand for sex by giving him a righteous dressing-down where she says "You're an animal! You have no fine feeling! Clean up your mind, and your soul!". A shamed [=McVeigh=] elects to turn over a new leaf.

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