To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
1948 · Feature film · 109 min · dir. Robert Stevenson
This is necessarily a story of violence, intrigue...and death.
- Thriller
Synopsis
Based on the files of the United States Department of Treasury. Commissioner Michael Barrows is an American Government Agent. On board a Coast Gaurd boat off the California coast he chases a ship. The Captain of the ship, the Kira Maru, panics and ruthlessly sends 100 Chinese slaves to a watery death. Barrows recovers a live preserver that tells him the ship is out of Shanghai. He travels there to track down the ship's captain and discovers that these deaths point to a huge drug smuggling…
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Details
- Director
- Robert Stevenson
- Writer
- Jay Richard Kennedy
- Composer
- George Duning
- Cinematography
- Burnett Guffey
- Studio
- Kennedy-Buckman Pictures, Columbia Pictures
- Released
- 1948-02-07
- Running time
- 109 minutes
Cast & crew
Robert Stevenson Director
Dick Powell
Signe Hasso
Maylia Fong
Ludwig Donath
Vladimir Sokoloff
Edgar Barrier
John Hoyt
Marcel Journet
