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I Conquer the Sea!

1936 film directed by Victor Hugo Halperin

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ47500729 ↗
Source-derived summary

I Conquer the Sea! is a 1936 American drama film. Directed by Victor Halperin, the film stars Steffi Duna, Dennis Morgan, and Douglas Walton. It was released on January 24, 1936.

Plot

Cast

Steffi Duna as Rosita Gonzales

Dennis Morgan as Tommy (credited as Stanly Morner)

Douglas Walton as Leonard

George Cleveland as Caleb

Johnnie Pirrone Jr. as Pedro Gonzales

Fred Warren as Sebastian

Anna De Linsky as Mrs.

Editorial summary

“I Conquer the Sea!” enters the record as 1936 film directed by Victor Hugo Halperin. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Conquer, film and directed can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1936—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1936-01-24. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Conquer, film and directed.
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“I Conquer the Sea!” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Conquer, film and directed provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q47500729. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “I Conquer the Sea!” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.