The Valiant Navigator
The Valiant Navigator or The Brave Seafarer is a 1935 German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Paul Kemp, Lucie Englisch and Maria Krahn. It was based on a play by Georg Kaiser. The 1940 American film The Ghost [Comes Home] is an adaption of the 1935 German film.
Synopsis
A young man plans to emigrate to the United States with his fiancée but becomes extremely fearful about the ocean crossing due to a local superstition. Eventually he decides to stay at home and marry his girl.Cast
- Paul Kemp as Berthold Jebs
- Lucie Englisch as Grete Holm
- Maria Krahn as Paula Jebs
- Harald Paulsen as Otto Jebs
- Otto Wernicke as Bäckermeister Holm
- Carsta Löck as Tine Peterson
- Harry Frank as Joe Jefferson
- Paul Westermeier as Timm, ein Landstreicher
- Hans Mierendorff as Jan, ein Matrose
- Paul Beckers
- Elli Blank
- Rudolf Essek
- Karl Harbacher
- Oskar Höcker
- Werner Pledath
- Arthur Reppert
- Ernst Rückert
- Otto Sauter-Sarto
- Willi Schaeffers
- Hans Hermann Schaufuß
- Toni Tetzlaff
- Petra Unkel