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Strange Cargo is a 1940 American romantic drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford in a story about a group of fugitive prisoners from a French penal colony. The adapted screenplay by Lawrence Hazard was based upon the 1936 novel, Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep , by Richard Sale .
- $1.25 million
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Strange Cargo: Directed by Frank Borzage. With Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre. Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure (Ian Hunter).
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Synopsis. At a penal colony in French Guiana, Verne, an incorrigible prisoner, makes an escape attempt but is turned in by Julie, a prostitute whom he accosts. Verne blackmails his way into another escape party led by Moll, a brutal killer who beats Verne in his sleep and leaves him behind.
- Frank Borzage, Lew Borzage
- Joan Crawford
In a French Guiana penal colony, an escape attempt by hardened criminal Verne (Clark Gable) is thwarted by jaded prostitute Julie (Joan Crawford). Undaunted, Verne blackmails brutal killer Moll ...
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- Joan Crawford
- Frank Borzage
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Verne (Clark Gable) wants nothing more than to escape from a penal colony located off the northern coast of South America. He tries to involve Julie (Joan Crawford), a saloon girl, in his plans but she turns him in to the authorities. On Verne's next try, he piggybacks on the escape of six other convicts and runs into Julie again in the process.
Strange Cargo. Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter, and Peter Lorre star in the controversial, provocative drama of a group of prison-island fugitives who are changed forever by a prisoner who thinks he is Jesus. When eight prisoners escape from a New Guinea penal colony, they are picked up by a sloop commandeered by another escapee named ...
