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[[Image:ghostship.jpg|thumb|The Ghost Ship starring Richard Dix]]

'''Duane Peters''' is a legendary [[skateboarder]].

'''''The Ghost Ship''''' is a [[black-and-white]] [[1943 in film|1943]] film starring [[Richard Dix]]. The film was directed by [[Mark Robson]] and produced by [[Val Lewton]] for RKO Pictures.

Thought no video evidence exists, Duane is the first person to do a full loop in a full pipe. This was done is a plexy gas full pipe. In the process of trying, Peters broke his collar bone, but did eventually pull it. It took 20 years for it to be even attempted again in a public forum.

A young officer joins the crew of a ship. At first, the captain (Dix) seems OK, but as the cruise goes forward a few deaths of crewmen occur. The young officer comes to believe that the captain, who is obsessed with authority, is responsible. At the first port, he attempts to reveal the captain as a madman but no one believes him and the young officer is fired. Unfortunately, while walking the streets he becomes involved in a fight and one of his old crew members, not knowing he was kicked off the ship, returns the unconsious man back on the ship before it steams from port. The officer wakes up on the ship and now realizes that the crazy captain may try to kill him out of revenge.

He later formed several [[hardcore punk]]/[[Skate punk]] bands including: the [[US Bombs]], and [[The Hunns]].

==Trivia==

He was awarded the Transworld Skateboarding Magazine's "Legend" award in 2003. He still rides for a subdivision of the [[Black Label Skateboard]] Company: Emergency.

*RKO tasked producer Lewton to make a sea-based film because the studio had a ship set already built after the making of the film ''Pacific Liner'' in 1938.

*The films producer Lewton was sued for plagiarism when it was claimed that the script was based on a play that was submitted to Lewton for a possible film. Lewton desputed the claim, but after a court case, the court ruled against him. ''The Ghost Ship'' was withdrawn from circulation and the film was unavailable for viewing for fifty years.

Spawned a punk-oriented clothing and shoe series with the well-established "[[Vision Streetwear]]" company.

*The film was released as part of the ''Val Lewton Horror Collection'' DVD set in 2005, despite the fact that the film is not a horror movie.

His bands include [[Duane Peters & the Hunns]] (now [[Die' Hunns]]), The Exploding Fuck Dolls, The U.S. Bombs, and most recently the Duane Peters Gunfight. This guy just doesn't stop.

==Cast==

*[[Richard Dix]] as Captain Will Stone

*[[Russell Wade]] as Tom Merriam, 3rd Officer

*[[Edith Barrett]] as Ellen Roberts

==See also==

Black Label has just released a biographic flick in the vein of [[Dogtown & Z-Boys]], entitled "Who Cares: The Duane Peters Story." (05.2005)

''[[Ghost Ship]]'' is an unrelated 2002 horror film.

==External links==

Girlfriend Corey Parks, formerly of Nashville Pussy, with whom he has one son, Clash Thomas Peters.

*[http://www.missinglinkclassichorror.co.uk/index.htm The Missing Link review]

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