Souls at Sea

Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.

Cast

Gary Cooper

as Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor

George Raft

as Powdah

Frances Dee

as Margaret Tarryton

Henry Wilcoxon

as Lieutenant Stanley Tarryton

Harry Carey

as Captain of the William Brown

Olympe Bradna

as Babsie

Robert Cummings

as George Martin

Porter Hall

as Court Prosecutor

George Zucco

as Woodley

Virginia Weidler

as Tina

Reviews

CinemaSerf

I never really found Gary Cooper to be the most invigorating of actors, but he delivers well here in this tale of maritime treachery. We start at a trial where he ("Nuggin") is being indicted for the killing of survivors from a seaborne disaster in the mid 1800s. It's while the evidence is being gi...

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