The Valiant Navigator
Directed by	Hans Deppe
Written by	George Hurdalek Georg Kaiser (play) Bobby E. Lüthge
Starring	Paul Kemp Lucie Englisch Maria Krahn
Cinematography	Günther Anders
Music by	Harald Böhmelt
Production companies	Tobis Film Minerva Film
Distributed by	Tobis Film
Release date	27 September 1935 (1935-09-27)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

The Valiant Navigator or The Brave Seafarer (German: Der mutige Seefahrer) is a 1935 German comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Paul Kemp, Lucie Englisch and Maria Krahn.^[1] It was based on a play by Georg Kaiser. The 1940 American film The Ghost Comes Home is an adaption of the 1935 German film.

A young man plans to emigrate to the United States with his fiancée but becomes extremely fearful about the ocean crossing due to a local superstition. Eventually he decides to stay at home and marry his girl.

• Paul Kemp as Berthold Jebs
• Lucie Englisch as Grete Holm
• Maria Krahn as Paula Jebs
• Harald Paulsen as Otto Jebs
• Otto Wernicke as Bäckermeister Holm
• Carsta Löck as Tine Peterson
• Harry Frank as Joe Jefferson
• Paul Westermeier as Timm, ein Landstreicher
• Hans Mierendorff as Jan, ein Matrose
• Paul Beckers
• Elli Blank
• Rudolf Essek
• Karl Harbacher
• Oskar Höcker
• Werner Pledath
• Arthur Reppert
• Ernst Rückert
• Otto Sauter-Sarto
• Willi Schaeffers
• Hans Hermann Schaufuß
• Toni Tetzlaff
• Petra Unkel

• Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland, 2008.

• The Valiant Navigator at IMDb

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