Andrew and Virginia Stone produced this low budget thriller that hung on an unbelievable premise and an impossible turn of events. No way the good people in the plot should have survived and some didn't.
James Mason stars as a professional merchant seaman and gets his first command after serving on passenger liners with the captaincy of a tramp freighter. It's a beat up old tub with a surly crew and a sizzling Dorothy Dandridge the wife of cook Joel Fluellen who no way in God's green earth should have been on the ship. Not too many could have controlled their hormones with Dandridge around.
Broderick Crawford and Stuart Whitman don't even try to keep things in check and in addition they've got a truly horrible plot to seize the ship and are the instigators of unrest. Whitman has it bad for Dandridge and he's claiming her as part of the salvage.
As this situation is laid out when you watch I have no doubt that you will think it impossible that anyone could have survived. And the sea would tell no tales.
The Decks Ran Red is just lame and impossible, but Dorothy Dandridge is always worth watching. James Mason didn't think much of this film according to The Films Of James Mason from the Citadel Film Series book on his work. And Broderick Crawford must have really been on a bender to sign for this one.
James Mason stars as a professional merchant seaman and gets his first command after serving on passenger liners with the captaincy of a tramp freighter. It's a beat up old tub with a surly crew and a sizzling Dorothy Dandridge the wife of cook Joel Fluellen who no way in God's green earth should have been on the ship. Not too many could have controlled their hormones with Dandridge around.
Broderick Crawford and Stuart Whitman don't even try to keep things in check and in addition they've got a truly horrible plot to seize the ship and are the instigators of unrest. Whitman has it bad for Dandridge and he's claiming her as part of the salvage.
As this situation is laid out when you watch I have no doubt that you will think it impossible that anyone could have survived. And the sea would tell no tales.
The Decks Ran Red is just lame and impossible, but Dorothy Dandridge is always worth watching. James Mason didn't think much of this film according to The Films Of James Mason from the Citadel Film Series book on his work. And Broderick Crawford must have really been on a bender to sign for this one.