Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Drama, Adventure, Romance
Release Year: 1935
Country: USA
Runtime: 87
Rating: 6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Tay Garnett
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Who will he terrorise... Who will he attack... Who will be his next victim ?

Writing by: Crosbie Garstin - (book)
Jules Furthman - (screenplay) and
James Kevin McGuinness - (screenplay)
Paul Bern - contributor to story (uncredited) and
Paul Hervey Fox - contributor to dialogue (uncredited) and
Monckton Hoffe - early script writer (uncredited) and
John Lee Mahin - contributor to screenplay construction (uncredited) and
Maurice Revnes - early script writer (uncredited)

Produced by: Albert Lewin - associate producer
Irving Thalberg - executive producer (uncredited)

Cast: Clark Gable - Captain Alan Gaskell
Jean Harlow - Dolly China Doll Portland
Wallace Beery - Jamesy MacArdle
Lewis Stone - Tom Davids, 3rd Officer
Rosalind Russell - Sybil Barclay
Dudley Digges - Mr. Dawson, 1st Officer
C. Aubrey Smith - Sir Guy Wilmerding
Robert Benchley - Charlie McCaleb
William Henry - Mr. Rockwell, Junior Officer
Liev De Maigret - Mrs. Olga Vollberg (as Live de Maigret)
Lilian Bond - Mrs. Timmons (as Lillian Bond)

Music: Herbert Stothart
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Plot Outline: When earthy Dolly Portland is rejected by Captain Gaskell in favor of a socialite, she aids Jamesy McCardle, in league with Malay pirates, in his plot to seize his ship.
Plot: Dynamic Alan Gaskell captains a ship bound from Hong Kong to Singapore. Gaskell tries to turn over a new leaf from his hard-drinking lifestyle after becoming attached to a refined high class English lady, Sybil Barclay. His former girlfriend Dolly is extremely jealous of the budding relationship and tries hard to get the Captain back. He is apparently unimpressed with her loud, obnoxious, and uncivilized manners, even though she is extremely beautiful. After a temporary take over of the ship by gold-seeking Asian pirates, Captain Gaskell must deal with the fact that Dolly and her drinking pal, Jamesey MacArdle, are implicated in the crime.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
"truly a gift" - Jeff Ayeroff

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: A revolver is shown that has a blown barrel due to what was said to be lack of strength in the metal as well as too strong a propellant powder. If the metal in the gun was weak, the part to fail would have been in the cylinder and frame area, not the barrel. The most likely cause of the damage that was shown would have been an obstruction in the barrel.

Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• While shooting in the studio two stuntmen were nearly killed as they were washed away by 50 tons of water.
• The film was banned in Malaya and Singapore.
• Jean Harlow wore a wig for this film. She had cut her hair shorter and was letting her natural color grow in. But for the scene where her character Dolly is soaked, the wig could not be used because it would look fake. Thus for a few seconds Harlows hair is shorter and a different color.

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