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 operation. In Shanghai, while searching for the captain of the Kira Maru, he becomes suspicious of a women, Ann Grant, believing she's Jean Hawks the narcotics ringleader. He follows the narcotics trail "to the ends of the Earth" taking him from Shanghai to Cairo, Beirut and Havana to stop the drugs and the jean Hawks ring at the US border.
Synopsis from OMDb
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
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Film Noir, Feature Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Dick Powell
- Signe Hasso
- Narcotics
- Opium
- Smuggling
- Shanghi
- Egypt
- Lebanon
- Havana
- Coast Guard
Cast & crew
Robert Stevenson Director
Dick Powell
Signe Hasso
Maylia Fong
Ludwig Donath
Vladimir Sokoloff
Edgar Barrier
John Hoyt
Marcel Journet
