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- PG1940 · Adventure · 1h 53m
Country. United States. Language. English. Budget. $1.25 million [3] Box office. $1.9 million [3] 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.
- $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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Strange Cargo (1940) is best known today as the eighth and final film co-starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. It is also a haunting and unusual film, controversial in its day, and considered by many critics to be the best expression of the metaphysical themes in the work of director Frank Borzage.
- 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
- Adventure
When eight prisoners escape from a New Guinea penal colony, they are picked up by a sloop commandeered by another escapee named Verne (Gable) and his trollop girl friend Julie (Joan Crawford). Among the fugitives is Cambreau (Ian Hunter), a soft-spoken, messianic character who has a profound effect on his comrades.
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Summaries. Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure (Ian Hunter). 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 ...
A group of prisoners on the lam from Devil’s Island—including Clark Gable, as a hardened thief, and a cabaret singer (Joan Crawford) escaping a different kind of prison—finds themselves joined on their harrowing journey to freedom by a mysterious and taciturn stranger (Ian Hunter).