''Cargo to Capetown'' is a 1950 American

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directed by Earl McEvoy and starring

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and

John Ireland John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 – March 21, 1992) was a Canadian actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in ''All the King's Men'' (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Oscar nomina ...

.Blottner p.30 The film reunited the stars of ''

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'', a major commercial and critical hit from the previous year. The film's sets were designed by

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Plot

The captain of a rusty tanker fights his chief engineer for a woman on board.

Cast

as Johnny Phelan *

as Kitty Mellar *

as Steve Conway *

Edgar Buchanan William Edgar Buchanan II (March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television. He is most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the ''Petticoat Junction'', ''Green Acres'', and ''The ...

as Sam Bennett * Ted de Corsia as Rhys * Robert Espinoza as Rik *

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as Singh

References

Bibliography

* Blottner, Gene. ''Columbia Noir: A Complete Filmography, 1940-1962''. McFarland, 2015.

External links

* 1950 films 1950 crime drama films American crime drama films Columbia Pictures films Seafaring films American black-and-white films Films directed by Earl McEvoy 1950s English-language films 1950s American films {{1950s-drama-film-stub