The title is reference to a line in the movie, not a spectre in sight. Although there is a presence hanging over the characters in the movie. The Captain (Richard Dix) a smooth talking man of authority, and seemingly a good man. Enter a fresh faced Third officer (Russell Wade) who begins as a protege in awe of his new captain, but as the voyage continues, he feels and observes what appears to be the truth that the captain has killed a man. After trying to convince others and failing he leaves the ship, but circumstances put him back on the ship and under the control of the captain. As the journey continues, the captain unravels, killing any support for the third officer. An observer to all of this, a mute crew member acts a narrator to the film, comes into his own in the finale. The film was enjoyable with a token of standard ship secondary characters. Dix plays his role well as does Wade. To me, the film feels a little short, and needed to fill out the slow realisation by the crew of the fact that Wade was right all along. The finale was fun, and for the year it was released surprisingly had some blood shown.
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