Strange Cargo (1929)





Spooks have come to the talkies. "Strange Cargo" devotes an hour and a quarter to discovering who killed Mr. Barclay. The picture is a good, stirring mystery play laid on board a yacht a thousand miles from anywhere but Davy Jones' Locker. The cast is all speaking-stage, wdth excellent performances by Frank Reicher, Lee Patrick, George Barraud, Claude King, Ned Sparks and Andre Beranger. Dialogue is good, and recording excellent. Unfortunately, it is hard to put a play in movie form, as the talkie makers are finding out.

Photoplay April 1929



Vintage magazines

Photoplay , April 1929
Photoplay , April 1929

Books with an entry on Strange Cargo

Larry Langman and Daniel Finn
A Guide to American Crime Films of the Thirties
Westport, Connecticut - London, 1995


Year: 1929
Country: United States
 
IMDb: 0020456