Souls at Sea (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Souls at Sea is a 1937 seafaring film starring Gary Cooper and George Raft. The movie features Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Robert Cummings, George Zucco, Joseph Schildkraut, Paul Fix, and Tully Marshall, and was directed by Henry Hathaway. The title of this film was spoofed in the Laurel and Hardy comedy film Saps at Sea (1940). The film was nominated for three Academy Awards. The story is based on two distinct early 19th Century themes. It is about the attempts by abolitionists (here played by Cooper and Raft) to end the continuing slave trade. Although the U.S. Constitution ended the importation of slaves in 1808, slaves were still being brought into the country under foreign flags.