The Captain Hates the Sea is a 1934 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Lewis Milestone

Lewis Milestone

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 and released by Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

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. The film, which involves a Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel (film)

Grand Hotel is a 1932 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by William A. Drake and Béla Balázs is based on the 1930 play of the same title by Drake, who had adapted it from the 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum...

-style series of intertwining stories involving the passengers on a cruise ship

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, is notable as the last film starring one-time silent film

Silent film

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 icon John Gilbert

John Gilbert (actor)

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 and the first Columbia feature film to include The Three Stooges in the cast. The film co-stars Victor McLaglen

Victor McLaglen

Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen was an English boxer and World War I veteran who became a successful film actor.Towards the end of his life he was naturalised as a U.S. citizen.-Early life:...

, Arthur Treacher

Arthur Treacher

Arthur Veary Treacher was an English actor born in Brighton, East Sussex, England.Treacher was a veteran of World War I. After the war, he established a stage career and in 1928, he went to America as part of a musical-comedy revue called Great Temptations...

, Akim Tamiroff

Akim Tamiroff

Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff was an Armenian actor. He won the first Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.Tamiroff was born in Tiflis, Russian Empire , of Armenian ethnicity. He trained at the Moscow Art Theatre drama school. He arrived in the U.S. in 1923 on a tour with a troupe of actors...

, Leon Errol

Leon Errol

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 and Walter Connolly

Walter Connolly

Walter Connolly was an American character actor who appeared in almost fifty films between 1914 and 1939.Connolly was a successful stage actor who appeared in twenty-two Broadway productions between 1916 and 1935, notably revivals of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author and Chekhov's...

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Production

During production, the film went over budget due in large part to the alcohol-fueled partying by members of the cast. Harry Cohn

Harry Cohn

Harry Cohn was the American president and production director of Columbia Pictures.-Career:Cohn was born to a working-class German-Jewish family in New York City. In later years, he appears to have disparaged his heritage...

, the head of Columbia, became alarmed by the cost overrun and sent a cable to Lewis Milestone that read: "Hurry up! The cost is staggering!" Milestone, in turn, sent a cable to Cohn that read: "So is the cast!"

To date, there has been no DVD

DVD

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release of The Captain Hates the Sea.

External links

• The Captain Hates the Sea in the Internet Movie Database