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Strange Cargo

1940 | 114 min | Drama · Romance

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Synopsis

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.

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Credits

Producer
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Director
Frank Borzage
Screenplay
Anita Loos, Lesser Samuels
Director of Photography
Robert H. Planck
Original Music Composer
Franz Waxman
Editor
Robert J. Kern
Country
United States

Cast · 12

J. Edward Bromberg

J. Edward Bromberg

Victor Varconi

Victor Varconi

Frederick Worlock

Frederick Worlock

Paul Lukas

Paul Lukas

Richard Cramer

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