Strange Cargo

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Strange Cargo ★★ ½ 1940

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island are mystically entranced by a Christ-like fugitive en route to freedom. An odd, pretentious Hollywood fable waiting for a cult following. Gable and Crawford's eighth and final pairing. Adapted by Anita Loos from the book “Not Too Narrow…Not Too Deep” by Richard Sale. 105m/B VHS . Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker, J. Edward Bromberg, Eduardo Ciannelli, Frederick Worlock; D: Frank Borzage; W: Lesser Samuels; C: Robert Planck; M: Franz Waxman.