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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
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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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The Great Escape (1963)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.