
Desperate Cargo (1941)
DEATH STRIKES...a mile above the Caribbean...as air piracy terrorizes the new Spanish Main!
67 min
When two showgirls decide to leave South America and head for home, they sweet talk the purser of a clipper ship into giving them berths. In the course of the voyage, a band of thieves attempts to take over the ship and make off with its cash cargo. The heroic purser has other ideas and weighs in to save the day.
- Release date
- July 4, 1941
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Ralph Byrd as Tony Bronson
- Carol Hughes as Peggy Morton
- Jack Mulhall as Jim Halsey
- Julie Duncan as Ann Howard
- I. Stanford Jolley as Carter
- Kenneth Harlan as Capt. Hank MacFarland
- Richard Clarke as Ryan - Henchman
- Johnstone White as Madden - Valet
- Johnstone White as Henchman
- Paul Bryar as Desser - Henchman
- Thornton Edwards as Manuelo
Crew
- William Beaudine · Director
- Eustace L. Adams · Writer
- Morgan Cox · Writer
- John T. Coyle · Writer
- John T. Coyle · Producer
- Jack Greenhalgh · Cinematographer
- Guy V. Thayer Jr. · Editor