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YELLOW CARGO aka Sinful Cargo (1936) Conrad Nagel & Eleanor Hunt | Action, Comedy, Drama | COLORIZED
Yellow Cargo is a 1936 American Poverty Row crime film written and directed by Crane Wilbur for Grand National Pictures. The film was rereleased in 1947 as Sinful Cargo. Starring Conrad Nagel as Alan O'Connor and producer George A. Hirliman's wife Eleanor Hunt as Bobbie Reynolds, it was the first of four G-man film series; the others were Navy Spy (1937), The Gold Racket (1937), and Bank Alarm (1937).
SYNOPSIS
An investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling Asians into the U.S.
Alan O'Connor, a Federal Agent with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics is transferred to the Immigration and Naturalization Service by flying to California in a Boeing 247, His mission is to use his expertise to assist them with identifying how a dangerous gang is infiltrating Chinese illegal immigrants into the United States. He meets newspaper reporter Bobbie Reynolds and her comedy relief photographer Speedy "Bulb" Callahan who are trying to obtain an interview with the director and producer of Globe Productions, a motion picture company who has yet to make a film. As O'Connor has stage acting experience, he his goaded by Reynolds to get a role with Globe Productions.
The trio discover that the film company brings twenty film extras in Chinese theatrical makeup to one of the Channel Islands of California to shoot a film.
CAST & CREW
Conrad Nagel as Alan O'Connor
Eleanor Hunt as Bobbie Reynolds
Vince Barnett as Speedy 'Bulb' Callahan
Jack La Rue as Al Perrelli
Claudia Dell as Fay Temple
Harry Strang as Joe Breeze
John Ivans as District Commissioner Dietrich
Vance Carroll as Burke Darrell
Lillian Wessner as Nurse
Crane Wilbur as Montie Brace
Directed by Crane Wilbur
Written by Crane Wilbur
Produced by Samuel Diege, George A. Hirliman, Edward L. Alperson
Cinematography Mack Stengler
Edited by Tony Martinelli
Music by Abe Meyer
Production company Condor Productions
Distributed by Grand National Films
Release date November 8, 1936
Running time 63 minutes
Country United States
Language English
NOTES
Production of Yellow Cargo began on December 2, 1935, at the Talisman Studios in East Los Angeles.
Variety wrote the film featured "a plot that has a certain amount of freshness and pretty good entertainment pull" with other reviewers acknowledging the film's innovative story and having solid production values for a low budget film.
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