The Captain Hates the Sea

The Captain Hates the Sea is a 1934 comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and released by Columbia Pictures. The film, which involves a Grand Hotelstyle series of intertwining stories involving the passengers on a cruise ship, is notable as the last feature film of silent film icon John Gilbert and the first Columbia feature to include The Three Stooges in the cast, cast as the ships orchestra. The film costars Victor McLaglen, Arthur Treacher, Akim Tamiroff, Leon Errol and Walter Connolly.

During production, the film went over budget due in large part to the alcoholfueled partying by Gilbert, McLaglen, Errol, Catlett and Connolly. Harry Cohn, the head of Columbia, became alarmed and sent a cable to Lewis Milestone that read Hurry up The cost is staggering Milestone, in turn, sent a cable to Cohn that read So is the castThe exterior footage of the San Capeador filmed at San Pedro Harbor would be recycled in the Three Stooges short Dunked in the Deep. ........

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