Night Cargo

1936 film
  • January 7, 1936 (1936-01-07)
Running time
66 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Night Cargo is a 1936 American crime drama film directed by Charles Hutchison and starring Lloyd Hughes, Julie Bishop and Walter Miller.[1] It was the final film produced by the low-budget Peerless Pictures studio.[2]

Plot

In Singapore a young American Bruce Donaldson searches for his former fiancee, a showgirl who fled America when his wealthy family refused to consent to the marriage. Bruce gets brief employment with Shark Moran who owns a nearby plantation, unaware that Shark is in love with a dancer in a Singapore bar who is Bruce's old lover using an alias. Things are complicated when Shark is murdered and two smugglers muscle in.

Cast

  • Lloyd Hughes as Bruce Donaldson
  • Julie Bishop as Claire Martineau, alias Marty
  • Walter Miller as Shark Moran
  • Carlotta Monti as Tiana
  • Lloyd Whitlock as Spider Blake
  • George Regas as Gus Noble
  • Jimmy Aubrey as Huggins
  • John Ince as Boat Captain

References

  1. ^ Fetrow p.458
  2. ^ Pitts p.269

Bibliography

  • Fetrow, Alan G. . Sound films, 1927-1939: a United States Filmography. McFarland, 1992.
  • Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each. McFarland & Company, 2005.

External links

  • Night Cargo at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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Films directed by Charles Hutchison
  • On Probation (1924)
  • Was It Bigamy? (1925)
  • The Little Firebrand (1926)
  • The Smoke Eaters (1926)
  • The Winning Wallop (1926)
  • Flying High (1926)
  • Catch-As-Catch-Can (1927)
  • The Down Grade (1927)
  • When Danger Calls (1927)
  • Bitter Sweets (1928)
  • Out with the Tide (1928)
  • Women Men Marry (1931)
  • A Private Scandal (1931)
  • Bachelor Mother (1932)
  • Out of Singapore (1932)
  • Found Alive (1933)
  • House of Danger (1934)
  • Circus Shadows (1935)
  • The Judgement Book (1935)
  • On Probation (1935)
  • Riddle Ranch (1935)
  • Night Cargo (1936)
  • Phantom Patrol (1936)
  • Desert Guns (1936)
  • Born to Fight (1936)
  • Topa Topa (1938)


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