The Lightship

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski Jerzy Skolimowski

Overview

Jerzy Skolimowski directed this allegorical drama taking place in 1955 aboard an anchored U.S. Coast Guard ship that serves as a lighthouse, preventing vessels from crashing into the rocks on the Virginia shore line. The lightship commander, Captain Miller (Klaus Maria Brandauer), is a German-born American who is haunted by a terrible experience from World War II. As a commander of a destroyer, he chose to chase after a German U-boat rather than pick up victims from the sea. Miller lives on the lightship with his troubled teenage son Alex (Michael Lyndon) and a tiny crew. When Miller spots a wrecked speedboat, he rescues the victims and brings them aboard the lightship. Unfortunately for Miller, the survivors are an unsavory lot -- a distasteful homosexual psychopath named Caspary (Robert Duvall) and his two low-life brothers, Gene (William Forsythe) and Eddie (Arliss Howard). Once aboard the lighthouse, the trio try to compel Miller to take them to their destination, but Miller resists, refusing to abandon the Virginia coast.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/14/2005
UPC:	0097368889347
Original Release:	1985
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Paramount
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:28:00
Sales rank:	48,641

Special Features

Closed Caption;Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 TVs; Dolby Digital English 5.1 surround; English 2.0 surround; English subtitles

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Robert Duvall	Calvin Caspary
Klaus Maria Brandauer	Captain Miller
Tom Bower	Coop
Robert Costanzo	Stump
Badja Djola	Nate
William Forsythe	Gene
Arliss Howard	Eddie
Michael Lyndon	Alex
Timothy Phillips	Thorne
Stanley Myers	Composer
Hans Zimmer	Composer

Technical Credits

David Taylor

William Mai

Bill Benenson	Producer
Moritz Borman	Producer
Jerzy Skolimowski	Director
Rainer Soehnlein	Executive Producer
David Taylor	Screenwriter
William Mai	Screenwriter