Port of Missing Girls (1938)
1938 · Feature film · 62 min · dir. Karl Brown
Bright lights and big city thrills are a temptation to resist...when the price a girl must pay is too high!
- Drama
Synopsis
Nightclub singer Della Mason witnesses a murder and is forced by the killer to flee with him from the scene of the crime. Escaping from the gangster, she secretly boards the ship of Captain Josiah Storm, a woman-hater, and the ship sails from San Francisco headed for China. Della is discovered by Jim Benton, the ship's first mate and he pleads her case to the captain. He leaves her in under the protection of Minnie at "Minnie's Joint in Shanghai, until her innocence can be established.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Karl Brown
- Writer
- Karl Brown
- Cinematography
- Gilbert Warrenton
- Studio
- Monogram Pictures
- Released
- 1938-02-24
- Running time
- 62 minutes
Cast & crew
- Karl Brown Director
Harry Carey
Judith Allen
Milburn Stone
Betty Compson
Matty Fain
George Cleveland
Jane Jones
Willy Castello
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · I liked it · Dr Feel Rotten · 2010-12-22
Some of the lines were good as well and Harry Carey was pretty good especially with "Keep your eyes open, your mouth shut and you might learn something before you..die.." although "Jim" sounded like he was auditioning to do a hemorrhoid ointment commercial. I do admit that line did sound like he hesitated a hair, but still done OK none the less because people DO hesitate in real life. Bits of the plot were predictable, but so what? So many of the plots here are and they get rave reviews. I thought at a point that we would learn that Della was the captain's real long lost daughter so it did…
★★★ · Woman aboard a ship causing trouble · accalaurie49 · 2010-06-08
Everything you expect of a story about a merchant vessel at sea: a tough captain with a kind heart, dangerous harbours with dubious inhabitants, some of them with their hearts "on the right place", some not, women causing trouble, and so on and on. I am not sure from which film I know Harry Carey but Milburn Stone is "Doc Adams" of "Gunsmoke". Both do a good job here.
