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15 October 1953 (USA)
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Foreign Agents Plot Destruction Of Panama Canal! more
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A man desperate to leave South America books passage on a freighter, and learns that the captain has made plans to force a scientist to participate in a mission of destruction. full summary | add synopsis
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More fun to watch this for the first time than Casablanca yet again.
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(Complete credited cast)| Barton MacLane | ... | Capt. 'Scarface' Trednor | |
| Virginia Grey | ... | Elsa Yeager | |
| Leif Erickson | ... | Sam Wilton (as Lief Erickson) | |
| Peter Coe | ... | Perro, Trednor's Mate | |
| Rudolph Anders | ... | Dr. Yeager | |
| Howard Wendell | ... | Fred Dilts, passenger | |
| Isabel Randolph | ... | Kate Dilts, passenger | |
| Paul Brinegar | ... | Clegg, saboteur | |
| Don Dillaway | ... | Everett Crofton, passenger | |
| Martin Garralaga | ... | Manuel, tavern keeper | |
| John Mylong | ... | Kroll, Soviet |
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72 min
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Factual errors: Leif Erickson's first name is misspelled in the credits as "Lief".
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This is the kind of movie Humphrey Bogart could have starred in. You just have to think Leif Erickson (the Sam Wilton Character) = Humphrey. Here you have it all... exotic locale, beautiful damsel, Communist secret agents, the mystery ship.
Captain Scarface is really fun if you watch it while imagining what it would have been like with Bogie in it.
There are only so many movies that we, today, can hold up as the icons of the era of the 1940's to 1950's. You can't idolize them all, and for some reason, just about any movie with Bogie in it seems to suit peoples' subjective criterion of greatness. The golden age of black and white movies yielded a ton of dramas that kept people heading for the local movie theater. No, they weren't all classics, but who cares? I'd much rather watch Captain Scarface for the first time than Casablanca one more time again.