This film always intrigues me because of it’s parallel – at least from the title – with the Marie Celeste although the story does not progress in any way like that

The film stars Hazel Court and Dermot Walsh who were married in real life.

Hazel Court later married actor and Producer/ Director Don Taylor – who had made a Robin Hood film ‘Men of Sherwood Forest’ here in England in 1954.

They remained happily married until he died

An interesting film with some good acting, an excellent flashback sequence which is told by a medium who the young couple who had recently acquired the ‘ghost ship’ employ – who tells them of a love triangle that had gone gone horribly wrong for the previous owners of the boat.

The Medium had been consulted to find out why the many strange and eerie happenings occurred – which had unnerved the young couple.

Of the stars, there are bit players who would later go on to find fame and success (Joss Ackland and Ian Carmichael also Ewen Solon who turned up in a lot of British films of that era, British star, Dermot Walsh, a brief turn for Sewell’s real-life wife, Joan Carol; an excellent performance from TV’s QUATERMASS, John Robinson, as a wronged captain, Hugh Burden, who later found success in television; and of course, a starring role from lovely Hammer starlet Hazel Court. Hazel takes centre stage for much of the production and she was very good

ABOVE – Dermot Walsh and Hazel Court on location