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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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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).
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.
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. "Strange" is right: this mystical MGM melodrama has to be the oddest of the studio's Clark Gable-Joan Crawford vehicles. 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).
Sep 10, 2012 · Strange Cargo 1940, directed by Frank Borzage | Film review. Film. Time Out says. Ace melodramatist Borzage always injected his tales of romance and hardship with more than a touch of...
Directed by Frank Borzage. M-G-M’s Mighty Thrill-Romance for 1940 ! Convicts escaping from Devil’s Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
