Singapore (1947)
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Returning to Singapore after a five-year absence, WWII veteran Matt Gordon (Fred MacMurray) mournfully recalls his romance with, and marriage to, a girl named Linda (Ava Gardner), whom he assumes was killed in a bombing raid on their wedding night. Resuming his prewar profession as a pearl smuggler, Matt gets mixed up with gangsters who are seeking a cache of pearls that he hid somewhere in Singapore during the war. He also meets wealthy Michael Van Leyden (Roland Culver), who is married to a woman who closely resembles the lamented Linda. In point of fact, she is Linda, but has been suffering from amnesia ever since the wartime bombing. Upon being reunited with his lost love, Matt does his best to ditch his unsavory companions and to rescue Linda from her "new" life. Clearly inspired by Casablanca, Singapore was remade as the 1957 Errol Flynn vehicle Istanbul. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Ava Gardner - Linda Gordon Van Leyden
- Richard Haydn - Chief Inspector Hewitt
- Thomas Gomez - Mr. Mauribus
- Porter Hall - Mr. Bellows
- Maylia - Ming Ling
- Edith Evanson - Miss Barnes
- Lal Chand Mehra - Mr. Hussein
- Patrick Aherne - British Officer
- David Ralston - Hewitt's Assistant
- H.T. Tsiang - Sabar
- Gerald Oliver Smith - Englishman
- Leyland Hodgson - British Officer
- Arthur E. Gould-Porter - Broadcaster
- Norman Ainsley - Immigration Official
- Fred MacMurray - Matt Gordon
- Roland Culver - Michael Van Leyden
- Spring Byington - Mrs. Bellows
- George Lloyd - Sascha Barda
- Holmes Herbert - Reverend Barnes
- Frederic Worlock - Cadum
- Curt Conway - Pepe
- Reginald Sheffield - Travel Agent
- Chabing - Native Woman
- George Sorel - Maitre d'
- Rudy Robles - Desk Clerk
- Philip Ahn - Bartender
- Dick Elliott - Passenger
- Luke Chan - Chinese Waiter
- Director(s):
- John Brahm
- Writer(s):
- Robert Thoeren, Seton Miller
- Producer(s):
- Jerry Bresler
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