The Ship of Condemned Women

1953 film by Raffaello Matarazzo

The Ship of Condemned Women

Directed by	Raffaello Matarazzo
Written by	Raffaello Matarazzo Ennio De Concini Aldo De Benedetti
Produced by	Alfredo De Laurentiis Nello Meniconi
Starring	Kerima May Britt Ettore Manni
Cinematography	Aldo Tonti
Edited by	Leo Catozzo
Music by	Nino Rota
Production company	Excelsa Film
Distributed by	Minerva Film
Release date	15 November 1953 (1953-11-15)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Ship of Condemned Women (Italian: La nave delle donne maledette) is a 1953 Italian historical adventure-melodrama film written and directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Kerima, May Britt and Ettore Manni. It is loosely based on the novel Histoire de 130 femmes by Léon Gozlan. It was shot in Gevacolor. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone.

Synopsis

A young woman wrongly convicted or murder is sentenced to serve in a penal colony, departs on a ship carrying a hundred female prisoners.

Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.

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