Night Cargo

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Night Cargo
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Directed by Charles Hutchison
Written by Sherman L. Lowe
Produced by Sam Efrus
Starring Lloyd Hughes
Julie Bishop
Walter Miller
Cinematography Walter Lundin
Edited by Fred Bain
Production
company
Peerless Pictures
Distributed byMarcy Pictures
Release date
  • January 7, 1936 (1936-01-07)
Running time
66 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language English

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]

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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.

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References

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

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