SMUGGLER'S ISLAND 1951
Macao, The Monte Carlo of the orient. Home to crooks, gunrunners, smugglers and gamblers. And for some unexplained reason, Jeff Chandler as an ex-navy diver. Work is so slow he finds himself in debt to one of the a-fore mentioned smugglers. His boat and equipment are being held in lieu of payment.
Enter Evelyn Keyes with a proposition. She well pay off Chandler's debt and in return he will help her recover the cargo of a crashed cargo plane. He agrees and off they go to find said aircraft. A quick dive and up Chandler comes with a rather heavy box marked drugs. Drugs it is not, but 200,000 in gold bars.
Chandler is less than amused since he knows the trouble this well cause. Keyes turns on the charm and offers an equal split if he helps smuggle it to Hong Kong. Of course that would be too simple and several unforeseen problems arise. Keyes' cad of a husband shows up and wants in on the deal. Then the local pirate chief sends men to hi-jack them, and the police likewise put in an appearance. Chandler tells Keyes it is the gold, or him, and blows up the ship sending the gold to the bottom again. What a mish-mash! It could have been a decent south seas action adventure.
The director, Edward Ludwig, was best known for helming a trio of John Wayne films, WAKE OF THE RED WITCH, THE FIGHTING SEE-BEES and BIG JIM MCLAIN. The d of p was Maury Gertsman.
Poor work from everyone involved.
Macao, The Monte Carlo of the orient. Home to crooks, gunrunners, smugglers and gamblers. And for some unexplained reason, Jeff Chandler as an ex-navy diver. Work is so slow he finds himself in debt to one of the a-fore mentioned smugglers. His boat and equipment are being held in lieu of payment.
Enter Evelyn Keyes with a proposition. She well pay off Chandler's debt and in return he will help her recover the cargo of a crashed cargo plane. He agrees and off they go to find said aircraft. A quick dive and up Chandler comes with a rather heavy box marked drugs. Drugs it is not, but 200,000 in gold bars.
Chandler is less than amused since he knows the trouble this well cause. Keyes turns on the charm and offers an equal split if he helps smuggle it to Hong Kong. Of course that would be too simple and several unforeseen problems arise. Keyes' cad of a husband shows up and wants in on the deal. Then the local pirate chief sends men to hi-jack them, and the police likewise put in an appearance. Chandler tells Keyes it is the gold, or him, and blows up the ship sending the gold to the bottom again. What a mish-mash! It could have been a decent south seas action adventure.
The director, Edward Ludwig, was best known for helming a trio of John Wayne films, WAKE OF THE RED WITCH, THE FIGHTING SEE-BEES and BIG JIM MCLAIN. The d of p was Maury Gertsman.
Poor work from everyone involved.