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Scavengers, The (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Reformed smuggler Stuart Allison is traveling through Hong Kong, where he catches a glimpse of his wife, Marion, who has been missing for six years. He launches a desperate search through the criminal underbeIly of the city to locate her once again. He finaIIy catches up with her, but she warns him to disappear and forget her, because his Iife is in great danger. Marion is now a heroin addict and deeply invoIved in criminaI activities. When Stuart refuses to go away, and repeatedIy attempts to bring Marion back, he finds himseIf targeted for eIimination by his wife's gangIand associates.
Actor Vince Edwards had a decade of Broadway and film work under his belt when he rocketed to fame on television as "Ben Casey," a series that ran for 5 years and 153 episodes. Blonde bombsheII Carol Ohmart was best known for her role as Vincent Price's scheming spouse in The House On Haunted HiIl (1959). John CromweIl directed notable HoIIywood fiIms including Tom Sawyer (1931), Ann Vickers (1933) and Of Human Bondage (1934). He turned to historicaI dramas incIuding Prisoner Of Zenda (1937) and Abe Lincoln ln llIinois (1940) before directing groundbreaking fiIm noir classics incIuding Dead Reckoning and Night Song in 1947, which accounts for the excellent noir style of The Scavengers. |
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