(For the 1929 talkie see The Isle of Lost Ships (1929 film)) The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1923 American silent adventure/melodrama film directed and produced by Maurice Tourneur and distributed by Associated First National Pictures. The film is based on 's novel The Isle of Dead Ships c.1909. The story was re-filmed in 1929 by director Irvin Willat. Tourneur himself made a different story with similar theme called The Ship of Lost Souls (1929) which had a young German actress, Marlene Dietrich, in the cast. The 1923 film has long since been thought to be lost.