Review of The Ghost Ship

I enjoy a lot of Val Lewton's movies too, but I'm afraid you may be led astray by the all but worshipful reviews here for The Ghost Ship. Because there is not much reasonable getting around the fact that this movie is lousy. The story does not seem very effectively worked out, the mute character seems trying to give the movie some credibility as a horror movie, but at any rate it does not much hang together. The acting is almost completely terrible and Dix is way out of his element. RKO was cranking these things out fast, I guess, and this just does not make it.