The Rime of the Ancient Mariner who are playing dice for the souls of the crew. With a roll of the dice, Death wins the lives of the crew members and Life-in-Death the life of the mariner, a prize she considers more valuable. Her name is a clue to the mariner's fate: he will endure a fate worse than death as punishment for his killing of the albatross. One by one, all of the crew members die, but the mariner lives on, seeing for seven days and nights the curse in the eyes of the crew's corpses, whose last expressions remain upon their faces. Eventually, this
The Ancient Mariner (film) An anonymous reviewer for the "Philadelphia Bulletin" wrote at the time, "except for a bit of slowness in the unwinding of the theme, the cinema version of Coleridge's famous poem is an entertaining photoplay". Another anonymous review in the "Public Ledger" said the film "is divided into a modern story and an allegory, and it is in the latter that the picture is most realistic and impressive". The Ancient Mariner (film) The Ancient Mariner is a 1925 American fantasy-drama silent film based on the popular poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798.