An early Spencer Tracy outing in this spy thriller set in Panama. Marie is a girl who delivers telegrams. She is kidnapped by a sea captain. Escaping in Mexico, she travels to the Panama Canal where she gets work as a singer and finds herself caught in a the crossfire of international espionage.
Cast:
Spencer Tracy as Dr. Crawbett
Ketti Gallian as Marie Galante
Ned Sparks as Plosser
Helen Morgan as MissTapia
Sig Ruman as Brogard
Leslie Fenton as General Saki Tenoki
Arthur Byron as General Gerald Phillips
Robert Loraine as Ratcliff
Frank Darien as Ellsworth
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This is a good spy drama.
It is quite funny that Marie-Galante is the name of a very little French island in the Caribbean! What a coincidence!
tanks . its actually much better than its reputation/ratings(elsewhere ) suggests.
@hammertapping *thanks
A pre Pearl Harbor movie in which the Japanese naval officer says rich people want to start wars because they're profitable. Woooow! Decades before Regan has Omar Torrijos assassinated after Carter gives the canal back to Panama.
Thanks for posting. Sorry for the political bs. Mind just blown a bit. It reminds me of the Orson Wells narrated Nostradamus special in the eighties. It said he prophesies a war between the US and the middle east. Propaganda.
Also 'starring' Stepin Fetchit, America's favorite dim-witted negro stereotype.
The wonderful and clever Monroe Andrew Perry who took the ignorance of the white Americans and ran with it, at one point earning more money than the president, now that's intelligence!
Yes, it takes great intelligence to sell out your own people for profit while helping to disseminate the most despicable of racial stereotypes nationwide.
There was no intention of offence, I just see it as playing at their own game, being Irish it's not hard to understand prejudice, before we became fashionable that is. I have never seen your race as anything but intelligent, but with your comments maybe I should rethink.
By all means, feel free to "rethink" to the very limits of your native intelligence. No offense intended.
Tell me, do the folks at your local Irish Pub know that you think it's a swell idea to sell out your people for filthy lucre?
No offence taken. Don't have a local Irish pub, I know opinion is divided on this and I think I am regretting even having an opinion.
I'm with you on that one.
Still it is my right so I agree to disagree, nothing wrong with that.
But there is something wrong with thinking the seeking after and the getting of money is the highest goal of life, erasing a multitude of sins once attained.
Heavy, maybe it was not about the money but about payback.
Yeah, that makes perfect sense, I'm gonna let Hollywood turn me into the most despicable, drooling, halfwit, bug-eyed racist stereotype that will be used to justify and perpetuate racist treatment of my people, and I'm gonna call that payback. He must have been a Republican.
Oops, goodnight Mr B.
I was born in panama in 47 and was wondering if this film was actually filmed there? I dont think so but
Everything now has to be explained in racial terms on purpose. Any actor willing to play the role of a retard taken from a French novel will be ridiculed for that characterization regardless of his skin color
once more-just because i am in love with character actors-i will sit through anything just to see a few frames with Ned Sparks in it
unfortunately in this one all he seems to do is abuse Lincoln Theodroe Monroe Andrew Perry
Tracy-"why do you suppose they want all these monkeys aboard?"
Sparks-" to play the pipe organ and sing bass"