The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1937)
The Mutiny of the Elsinore is a 1937 British action film directed by Roy Lockwood and starring Lyn Harding, Jiro Soneya and Paul Lukas. Following a mutiny on a ship against a brutal captain, a writer who happens to be aboard as a passenger is asked to take over. It was an adaptation of the novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London.
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