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A Ship Comes In

1928 film by William K. Howard
Movie film Q1219078
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Summary

A Ship Comes In is a film[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (103 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Director: William K. Howard[3]
  • Screenwriter: Sonya Levien[4], Julien Josephson[5]
  • Genre: drama film[6], silent film[7]
  • Cast member: Rudolph Schildkraut[8], Louise Dresser[9], Fritz Feld[10], Milton Holmes[11], Lucien Littlefield[12]
  • Production company: DeMille Pictures Corporation[13]
  • Director of photography: Lucien Andriot[14]
  • Color: black-and-white[15]
  • Country of origin: United States[16]
  • Publication date: January 4, 1928[17]
  • Distributed by: Pathé Exchange[18]
  • Film editor: Barbara Hunter[19]
  • Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actress[20]
  • Title: A Ship Comes In[21]
  • Duration: 70 minutes[22]
  • Aspect ratio (W:H): 4:3[23]
  • Costume designer: Adrian[24]

Why It Matters

A Ship Comes In has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

film Louise Dresser United States

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · Quesotiotyo · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 21
    Wikipedia languages → ['ca', 'ckb', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'hu', 'id', 'it', 'ko',
    Ampas collections film id → W087223
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Ampas collections film id: W087223, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290954|batch #290954]]"
  2. 8w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Costume designer → Adrian
    Production company → DeMille Pictures Corporation
    Filmová databáze film id → 182911
    Duration → {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+70'}
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Filmová databáze film id: 182911, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269266|batch #269266]]"
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