Strange Cargo (1940)
- Starring:
- Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, (more)
- Director(s):
- Frank Borzage
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Strange Cargo
"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). Among the fugitives is Cambreau (Ian Hunter), a soft-spoken, messianic character who has a profound effect on his comrades. One by one, the escapees abandon their evil purposes and find God-and a peaceful death--through the auspices of the Christlike Cambreau. The last to succumb to Cambreau's ministrations is Verne, who agrees to return to return to the prison colony serve out his sentence if Julie will wait for him (which she does). A superb Franz Waxman score provides a touch of show-biz grandeur to this haunting fable. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Strange Cargo
- Joan Crawford - Julie
- Ian Hunter - Cambreau
- Peter Lorre - Cochon
- Albert Dekker - Moll
- Eduardo Ciannelli - Telez
- Frederic Worlock - Grideau
- Victor Varconi - Fisherman
- Stanley Andrews - Constable
- Paul Fix - Benet
- Frank Lackteen - Convict
- Jack Adair - Guard
- Gene Coogan - Convict
- Harry Semels - Convict
- James Pierce - Guard
- Mitchell Lewis - Guard
- Eddie Foster - Convict
- Betty Compson - Suzanne
- Rychard Cramer - Guard
- Clark Gable - Andre Verne
- Peter Lorre - Monsieur Pig
- Paul Lukas - Hessler
- J. Edward Bromberg - Flaubert
- John Arledge - Duford
- Bernard Nedell - Marfeu
- Richard Alexander - Guard
- William Edmunds - Watchman
- Christian J. Frank - Guard
- Francis McDonald - Moussenq
- Art Dupuis - Orderly
- Ray Teal - Guard
- Dewey Robinson - Georges
- Jack Mulhall - Dunning
- Charles Judels - Renard
- Budd Fine - Guard
- Harry Cording - Guard
- Director(s):
- Frank Borzage
- Writer(s):
- Lesser Samuels, Lawrence Hazard, Franz Waxman
- Producer(s):
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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