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Strange Cargo

film by Borzage [1940]

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In Frank Borzage: MGM tenure
…MGM, Borzage was assigned to Strange Cargo (1940), a parable in which several convicts (among them Clark Gable, Peter Lorre, and Paul Lukas) and a saloon girl (Crawford) escaping from a South American penal colony are redeemed and changed by the spiritual influence of a new prisoner (Ian Hunter), who…
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role of Crawford

In Joan Crawford
… (1939), Susan and God (1940), Strange Cargo (1940), and A Woman’s Face (1941).
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