“Some Ships... Like Some Women... are poison to a man!”
Captain Biff Brown owns a boat used to ferry prisoners from the mainland to Alcatraz. The police find some escape tools on his boat and, although Brown isn't involved, his contract is terminated and he goes back to tuna fishing. Brown takes his friend Sanderson to his boarding house and introduces him to his sweetheart Madge Harris and Sanderson also falls in love with her. A gang headed by Red Mason and trying to escape the country bribe Brown's engineer, Venatti, and are hiding on the boat the next time Brown and Sanderson take it out. They take over the boat but a storm is approaching...
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Cast
16 people
Denver Pyle
Carl
Known for
The Dukes of Hazzard
Bonnie and Clyde
Richard Lane
Capt. Biff Brown
Known for
Hellzapoppin'
Arabian Nights
Lew Landers
Lawrence Taylor
Known for
In Hell
Any Given Sunday
Martin Mooney
Louise Campbell
Madge Harris
Also in
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Night Club Scandal
William Bishop
Sanderson
Known for
Song of the Thin Man
Damian O'Flynn
Red Mason
Known for
A Foreign Affair
Marked Woman
Anthony Caruso
Venetti
Known for
The Asphalt Jungle
Objective, Burma!
Myrna Liles
Jennie
Marc Krah
Mike
Known for
Criss Cross
Anthony Warde
Burke
Also in
Buck Rogers
Man With Two Lives
Lew Landers Director · Lawrence Taylor Writer
United States release December 11, 1947 · Produced in United States
Production
Columbia Pictures
Production · Distribution
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · December 11, 1947
Theatrical
Mexico
May 5, 1948
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