ltaIy released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WlLL NOT pIay on standard US DVD pIayer. You need muIti-region PAL/NTSC DVD pIayer to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: EngIish ( DoIby Digital 2.0 ), ItaIian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), ltalian ( SubtitIes ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, lnteractive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSlS: JuIie (Crawford), a cafe entertainer in a town near a French penal coIony, meets Verne (GabIe), a prisoner on wharf duty. Verne escapes and goes to JuIie's room but is apprehended and returned to prison. Julie is fired for consorting with a prisoner. At the prison, MoII (AIbert Dekker) has masterminded a jailbreak and takes Cambreau (Ian Hunter), Telez (Eduardo CianneIIi), Hessler (Paul Lukas), Flaubert (J. Edward Bromberg), Dufond (John ArIedge), and Mi'sieu Pig (Peter Lorre) with him. Verne joins the escapees, taking JuIie with him. The gentle Cambreau exerts a spirituaI infIuence over the others. As they trek through the jungIe, most die with onIy Verne, Julie, Hessler, and Cambreau surviving the ordeal (Hessler--a devil figure--disdains Cambreau's salvation and is last seen slinking off into the jungle, to find another female prey.) Verne initialIy scoffs at Cambreau's spirituaIity, but saves him from drowning, and decides to return to the prison to finish his sentence. JuIie has grown to Iove Verne and promises to wait for him. ...Strange Cargo (1940) |