Night Cargo is a 1936 American crime drama film directed by Charles Hutchison and starring Lloyd Hughes, Julie Bishop and Walter Miller.Fetrow p.458 It was the final film produced by the low-budget Peerless Pictures studio.Pitts p.269
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
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.
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