Mystery Sea Raider- 1940 A quite well made low budget programmer. The film is set just before WW2 starts in Europe. Several Nazi's, Onslow Stevens, Roland Varno and Willy Kaufman, hire the Captain, Henry Wilcoxon and crew of a rundown and harmless looking merchant ship. They tell Wilcoxon they need to deliver some cargo to South America. Of course the U.S. Captain and crew have no idea that it is really Nazis who have hired them.
They set sail and several days later Germany attacks Poland. The Nazis pull out their guns and take over the ship. Of course the "cargo" turns out to be supplies for U-boats and raiders.
They meet with several U-boats who refuel from the now Nazi controlled ship. The Nazis use the neutral American ship as perfect cover to fool any British warships.
Needless to say the crew want to take the ship back. But how? I'm not telling! The rest of the cast includes the, "built like a brick s*******e" Carole Landis, Henry Victor, Kate Howard, Louis Aldon and Monte Blue.
This is a very well put together little wartime thriller. It is an early film from future big time director, Edward Dmytryk. Dmytryk made several cracker-jack film noir including, MURDER, MY SWEET, THE SNIPER and CROSS-FIRE. He is best known though as the director of the Bogart film, THE CAINE MUTINY.
They set sail and several days later Germany attacks Poland. The Nazis pull out their guns and take over the ship. Of course the "cargo" turns out to be supplies for U-boats and raiders.
They meet with several U-boats who refuel from the now Nazi controlled ship. The Nazis use the neutral American ship as perfect cover to fool any British warships.
Needless to say the crew want to take the ship back. But how? I'm not telling! The rest of the cast includes the, "built like a brick s*******e" Carole Landis, Henry Victor, Kate Howard, Louis Aldon and Monte Blue.
This is a very well put together little wartime thriller. It is an early film from future big time director, Edward Dmytryk. Dmytryk made several cracker-jack film noir including, MURDER, MY SWEET, THE SNIPER and CROSS-FIRE. He is best known though as the director of the Bogart film, THE CAINE MUTINY.