White Cargo (1942)
- Directed by
- Richard Thorpe
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A British agent in Africa recounts a story from his past. He tells of the arrival of a mysterious and alluring woman who disrupts the lives of men working at a remote rubber plantation.
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What happens
White Cargo is a 1942 American drama film starring Hedy Lamarr and Walter Pidgeon, and directed by Richard Thorpe. Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it is based on the 1923 London and Broadway hit play by Leon Gordon, which was in turn adapted from the 1912 novel Hell's Playground by Ida Vera Simonton. The play had already been made into a British part-talkie, also titled White Cargo, with Maurice Evans in 1930. The 1942 film, unlike the play, begins in what was then the present-day, before unfolding in flashback. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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