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Yellow Cargo (1936)

Yellow Cargo poster
Directed by
Crane Wilbur
Genre
romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 03m
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A federal agent goes undercover to stop a smuggling ring. He works with a female reporter to catch the criminals.

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What happens

Yellow Cargo is a 1936 American Poverty Row crime film written and directed by Crane Wilbur for Grand National Pictures. The film was rereleased in 1947 as Sinful Cargo. Starring Conrad Nagel as Alan O'Connor and producer George A. Hirliman's wife Eleanor Hunt as Bobbie Reynolds, it was the first of four G-man film series; the others were Navy Spy (1937), The Gold Racket (1937), and Bank Alarm (1937). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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