| Slave Ship | |
| Director: | Tay Garnett |
| Producer: | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Screenplay: | Sam Hellman Lamar Trotti Gladys Lehman |
| Based On: | [1] |
| Starring: | Warner Baxter Wallace Beery Elizabeth Allan Mickey Rooney George Sanders Jane Darwell Joseph Schildkraut |
| Music: | Alfred Newman |
| Cinematography: | Ernest Palmer |
| Editing: | Lloyd Nosler |
| Studio: | 20th Century Fox |
| Distributor: | 20th Century Fox |
| Runtime: | 100 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Slave Ship is a 1937 American historical adventure film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery and Elizabeth Allan. The supporting cast features Mickey Rooney, George Sanders, Jane Darwell, and Joseph Schildkraut. It is one of very few films out of the forty-eight that Beery made during the sound era for which he did not receive top billing.
Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a mixed review, finding fault with the "slow-motion emotions" of Warner Baxter's acting and the plot's "slowness and inevitability" whereas real life is replete with "unexpected encounter[s]". Nevertheless, Greene opined that "[''Slave-Ship''] isn't a bad film, [and] it has excellent moments". Chief amongst these moments, Greene praised the knife-throwing scenes and the general acting of Wallace Beery.[2]