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Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
Language
Budget$1,138,000
Revenue --
English
Budget$1,138,000
Revenue --
Keywords
rescue
ship
gold
romance
love
pirate
old flame
swashbuckler
typhoon
secret cargo
bad guy
against all odds
boating
good guy
tramp steamer
Casts

Clark Gable
Cpt Alan Gaskell

Jean Harlow
Dolly 'China Doll' Portland

Wallace Beery
Jamesy MacArdle

Lewis Stone
Tom Davids

Rosalind Russell
Sybil Barclay

Dudley Digges
Dawson

C. Aubrey Smith
Sir Guy Wilmerding

Robert Benchley
Charlie McCaleb

William Henry
Rockwell

Liev De Maigret
Mrs. Vollberg

Lilian Bond
Mrs. Timmons

Edward Brophy
Wilbur Timmons

Soo Yong
Yu-Lan
Carol Ann Beery
Carol Ann

Akim Tamiroff
Paul Romanoff

Ivan Lebedeff
Ngah

Emily Fitzroy
Mrs. Higgins (uncredited)

Hattie McDaniel
Isabel McCarthy, Dolly's Maid (uncredited)

Malcolm McGregor
Atkins (uncredited)

Donald Meek
Chess Player (uncredited)

Willie Fung
Cabin Boy Ah Sing (uncredited)

Daisy Belmore
Martha, Sybil's Maid (uncredited)

Barlowe Borland
Willett, Royal Canada Bank (uncredited)

Harry C. Bradley
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Fred Farrell
Ship Passenger (uncredited)

Pat Flaherty
Second Officer Kingston (uncredited)

Chester Gan
Rickshaw Boy (uncredited)
Tom Gubbins
Ship's Officer / Sergeant of the Guards (uncredited)
Sherry Hall
Ship's Engineer (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Ship Passenger (uncredited)

Forrester Harvey
Chief Steward Ted Gary (uncredited)

John Ince
Ship's Pilot (uncredited)
Charles Irwin
Bertie the Purser (uncredited)

Tetsu Komai
Malay Pirate (uncredited)
Eddie Lee
Sailor on Bridge (uncredited)

Richard Loo
Chinese Inspector at Gangplank (uncredited)
Ferdinand Munier
Police Superintendent (uncredited)

Beatrice Roberts
Ship's Passenger (uncredited)

Loretta Russell
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
James Wang
Trapshooting Attendant (uncredited)

Bobby Watson
Man on Dock with McCaleb (uncredited)
Crews

Tay Garnett
Director

Jules Furthman
Screenplay

James Kevin McGuinness
Screenplay
Crosbie Garstin
Novel

Irving Thalberg
Executive Producer

Albert Lewin
Associate Producer

Herbert Stothart
Original Music Composer
Ray June
Director of Photography
William LeVanway
Editor

Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction

Adrian
Costume Design
Joe Cohn
Production Manager
Frank Messenger
Unit Manager

Joseph M. Newman
Assistant Director

Douglas Shearer
Sound
Paul Bern
Story Consultant
Paul Hervey Fox
Dialogue
Monckton Hoffe
Writer

John Lee Mahin
Screenplay
Maurice Revnes
Writer

Harold S. Bucquet
Second Unit Director
James C. McKay
Second Unit Director

William A. Wellman
Second Unit Director
James Curtis Havens
Art Direction
David Townsend
Art Direction

Edwin B. Willis
Art Direction
Elmer Sheeley
Assistant Art Director
Warren Newcombe
Special Effects
James Basevi
Visual Effects
Clyde De Vinna
Director of Photography
Ellsworth Fredericks
Assistant Camera
Ray Ramsey
Assistant Camera
Paul Marquardt
Orchestrator
Charles Maxwell
Orchestrator
Leonid Raab
Orchestrator
Jack Virgil
Orchestrator
Edward Ward
Compositor
Backdrops & Posters

