Useless Movie Trivia For
Ghost Ship
Memorable Movie Quotes
Epps: You mean, what's a nice girl like me doing in a dump like this, instead of raising a family? Simple. I own a third of Murphy's operation, I'm not that nice, and these monkeys... are my family.
Murphy: I do know one thing. I've seen strange things happen in the strait. But I know something else. Sea gives you an opportunity you take it.
Epps: Oh, God, you really are a fucking ghost.
Katie: You must go at once. Leave the ship while you still can!
Trivia
Originally conceived as a relatively bloodless psychological horror about four salvage crew members who turn against one another after being stranded in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean aboard the remains of a cruise ship (The Chimera) believed to have been lost in the 1960s.
The opening floor deck sequence of the film where everyone is severed in the torso area by a cable, was originally conceived to be that everyone was decapitated, but the studio didn't like the idea.
The scene on the foredeck where the Captain and the passengers were dancing, and the scene in the ballroom, was a common tradition at the time near the end of a trans-Atlantic voyage. These were usually held as the ship approached the end of the trip, near the coast and these Balls were called the "Captain's Ball".
Goofs
Gold bars of the size shown are much heavier than depicted.
When Epps is walking down the hall looking for Katie's room she is clearly wearing the heart necklace which she has not found yet.
When the engine squirts oil on Santos, the oil changes positions from the left side to the right side of Santos' coveralls.
When the Arctic Warrior first collides with the Antonia Graza, it strikes just above her name on the bow. In the next shot, the Warrior is seen bouncing off the hull just aft of the bridge, and a final shot shows the Warrior backing away from the Graza near the stern.
When the Arctic Warrior is searching for the Antonia Graza it is shown traveling through a bad storm. There are many shots of the outside of the boat with driving rain and lightning however the sea remains flat calm the whole time.
When Epps breaks a cabin window and throws the pump discharge line out the window, we see in the shot from outside the ship that the water is being discharged from at least five decks above the water-line. The engine room was below the water line, and no one would run a hose up an extra five flights of stairs when they could run it overboard just above the water-line.
The ship is supposedly caught up in a rotating current in the Bering Sea. North of the equator, this would be moving the ship in a counterclockwise direction, driving its right (starboard) side into the rocky islands at the edge of the current. As shown, the ship's left (port) side is at risk, meaning that the ship is drifting in a clockwise rotation. This would be the norm south of the equator, where the movie was filmed.
Though the Antonia Graza is supposed to be an Italian ship, there are several glaring grammatical errors whenever Italian words are visible on screen. The most evident of these is the plaque sporting the phrase "Cabina di capitano" (outside the ship's captain cabin) instead of the correct "Cabina del capitano". Other visible errors include gibberish on a can of rat poison in the galley.
Though Francesca (the lounge singer) speaks perfect Italian during the rest of the movie, the song she performs during the title sequence ("Senza Fine") is sung in heavily-accented Italian. (Italian actress Francesca Rettondini is lip-syncing a non-Italian performer.)
Maritime law on salvage at sea is not "finders, keepers" as stated. The amount awarded to the finders by a salvage court is typically a percentage of the value of the ship and cargo.
When the Graza's crew blow open the door to the room with the gold, the door is blown from the inside out. If they were able to get in to plant explosives, why did they need them? Also, a blast of that size would have set the mail bags on fire.
The handgun Francesca uses right before her death is a model that didn't exist in 1962. It is a Czech CZ-75, first marketed in 1976.
Box Office Info USA
Budget: $35,000,000
Opening Weekend: $11,503,423
Gross: $30,079,316
Weekend Gross: $52,022,908
Filming Locations
Australia
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Queensland, Australia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Warner Bros. Movieworld - Pacific Highway, Oxenford, Queensland, Australia