The Sea Wolf (1913 film)

The Sea Wolf
Still with Herbert Rawlinson and Hobart Bosworth
Directed by	Hobart Bosworth
Screenplay by	Hobart Bosworth
Based on	The Sea-Wolf 1904 novel by Jack London
Produced by	Hobart Bosworth
Starring	Hobart Bosworth Viola Barry Herbert Rawlinson
Cinematography	George W. Hill
Distributed by	State Rights and later W. W. Hodkinson
Release date	December 7, 1913 (1913-12-07)
Running time	7 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Sea Wolf is a lost 1913 American silent adventure film directed by and starring Hobart Bosworth and co-starring Herbert Rawlinson. Based on the 1904 Jack London novel The Sea-Wolf, the production's master negatives were destroyed in the disastrous 1914 vault fire at the Lubin Manufacturing Company, the Philadelphia-based film company that Bosworth contracted to produce theatrical prints of his screen adaptation.

Production history

Bosworth previously made a one reel version of the story at Selig directed by Sidney Ayres. It was never released officially. The Balboa company also made a competing version and was sued by author Jack London who had it removed from theatres. Bosworth formed his own company, hired Jack London himself as a cast member, and made this 7 reel version. It was not released until London's legal dispute with the Balboa company was over. In February 1914 W.W. Hodkinson released the film commercially.

Cast

• Hobart Bosworth as Wolf Larsen
• Herbert Rawlinson as Humphrey Van Weyden
• Viola Barry as Maude Brewster
• J. Charles Haydon as Mugridge
• Jack London as A Sailor
• Gordon Sackville as Johnson
• Joe Ray

See also

• List of Paramount Pictures films

External links

• The Sea Wolf at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie
• The Sea Wolf at the TCM Movie Database
• The Sea Wolf at the American Film Institute Catalog
• 1913 advertisement