Strange Cargo (1940)

Directed by

Frank Borzage

Genre

drama film, prison film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 55 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of prisoners escape from a harsh French penal colony. They must survive a dangerous journey through the jungle while being hunted.

tenseromanticgrittysuspensefuldramatichopefulbleakatmospheric

What happens

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. The film was produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was the eighth and final film pairing of Crawford and Gable, and the first Gable film released in the wake of Gone with the Wind. The supporting cast includes Ian Hunter, Paul Lukas, Eduardo Ciannelli and Peter Lorre. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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