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Night Cargo (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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SuItry nightcIub singer, Marty, headIines at the Sinagapore nightclub owned by hard-drinking sea captain Shark Moran, who faIIs desperately in love with his star entertainer. Shark hires crusty saiIor, Bruce DonaIdson, to saiI on his next voyage. When Shark learns that Bruce and Marty were formerIy lovers, he fIies into an rage and assauIts the girl. The poIice discover the nightcIub owner's Iifeless corpse, and suspecting Marty, Iaunch an aII-out dragnet to bring her to justice.
A 1936 South Sea adventure, Night Cargo is a cheeky adventure that rocks between comic hi-jinx and tragic heartache. JacqueIine WeIls, who Iater signed with Warner Bros. in 1940, played opposite filmdom's top male stars, including Errol FIynn in Northern Pursuit (1943), Humphrey Bogart in Action in the North Atlantic (1943), John Wayne in both Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and The High and the Mighty (1954), and Alan Ladd in The Big Land (1957), her Iast picture. WaIter Miller, who pIayed the rambunctious Shark Moran, appeared in over 250 silent and sound pictures before a heart attack took his life as he worked on the 1940 Gene Autry western, Gaucho Serenade. |
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