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After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship's cargo... Written by AnonymousRead moreLess
After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship's cargo... Written by Anonymous
The story
After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship's cargo... Written by Anonymous
Cast & crew
Horst BuchholzPhilip Gale, Amerikanischer Seeman
Mario AdorfLawski, Polnischer Kohlenschlepper
Helmut SchmidMartin, Heizer auf der Yorikke
Alf MarholmKapitän der Yorikke
Elke SommerMylène Loureau
Karl Lieffenbelgischer Kripobeamter
Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmannbelgischer Polizist
Alfred BalthoffHenri Ballard, Passfälscher
Günter MeisnerPaulExplore the crew
- Director
- Georg Tressler
- Editor
- Ilse Voigt
- Screenplay
- Hans Jacoby
- Screenplay
- Werner Jörg Lüddecke
- Producer
- Georg Tressler
- Original Music Composer
- Roland Kovac
- Director of Photography
- Heinz Pehlke