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Cast
- Edward G. Robinson'Wolf' Larsen
- Ida LupinoRuth Webster
- John GarfieldGeorge Leach
- Alexander KnoxHumphrey Van Weyden
- Gene LockhartDr. Prescott
- Barry FitzgeraldCooky
- Stanley RidgesJohnson
- David BruceYoung Sailor
- Francis McDonaldSvenson
- Howard Da SilvaHarrison
Recommendations
- 91
IndieWire
Curtiz was a master of all genres but The Sea Wolf is his best. Darkly flirting with the noir genre that would capture the decade, there's so much tension and hostility, secrets and lies that permeate the ship. Ida Lupino has never been more beautiful as the criminal attempting to rewrite her past. - 90
The New York Times
The Sea Wolf is a triumph of studio filmmaking. [22 Oct 2017, p.11] - 80
Time Out
Given Robert Rossen's strikingly literate script, Sol Polito's wonderfully eerie camerawork, and Robinson's terrific performance - all pulling together to elaborate the Luciferian motto borrowed from Milton by which the captain lives, 'Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven' - this is one of Curtiz's best movies. - 80
TV Guide Magazine
THE SEA WOLF contains little of the prolixity of Jack London's philosophically oriented novel, yet it is true to the spirit of the book. The megalomania of the ship's master is wonderfully expressed in Edward G. Robinson's fine portrayal of the contemptuous captain. - 75
The Seattle Times
The best of several film versions of Jack London's story about a Nazi-like sea captain (Edward G. Robinson in top form), this Warner Bros. production co-stars Ida Lupino and John Garfield and was directed by Michael Curtiz, shortly before he made "Casablanca." [26 Dec 1991, p.E1] - 60
Variety
Robinson provides plenty of vigor and two-fisted energy to the actor-proof role of Larsen, and at times is over-directed. - 50
The New York Times
At least a good half of the effect in a sea-picture comes from the sea, and when that element is lacking the whole thing seems flat and synthetic. This, we regret to say, is a major fault in The Sea Wolf.
