White Cargo.

Duration: 9 reels

Genre: melodrama

Year Published: 1942

Creator: Richard Thorpe

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Richard Carlson

Description: The film is set in 1910. The only four white men within hundreds of miles eagerly await the arrival of the riverboat Congo Queen. The situation becomes worse when Tondelayo (Lamarr), a seductive native woman, returns. The doctor takes Langford away on the Congo Queen for better medical treatment, identifying him as white cargo.

Complete Record: WHITE CARGO. Loew's Inc., c1942. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 9 reels, sd., b&w. From the stage play by Leon Gordon; based on the novel "Hell's Playground" by Ida Vera Simonton. Credits: Producer, Victor Saville; director, Richard Thorpe; screenplay, Leon Gordon; music score, Bronislau Kaper; film editor, Fredrick Y. Smith. © Loew's Inc.; 15Sep42; LP11668.

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