The read
It runs a compact 1h 5m.
Synopsis
Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.
Ratings
7 audience votes
Key crew
- Arthur St. ClaireWriter
- George M. MerrickWriter
- Albert H. KellyDirector
Cast
- John LitelJames Xavier 'Jim' Taggart
- Alan BaxterJoe Morgan
- Eric BloreSpike, Morgan's Aide
- Georges MetaxaNazi Agent Anton Kroll
- George FlahertyDavid Cavanaugh
- Rafael AlcaydeFelipo
- Fifi D'OrsayMaria Styx
- Iris AdrianDorothy
- Jacqueline DalyaJudy Pierson
- Anna DemetrioAngela Styx
- Luis AlberniMr. Styx
- Lucien PrivalCapt. Mueller - German Submarine