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Sealed Cargo (1951)

• Director
  • Alfred L. Werker
• Writers
  • Dale Van Every(screen play)
  • Oliver H.P. Garrett(screen play)
  • Roy Huggins(screen play)
• Stars
  • Dana Andrews
  • Carla Balenda
  • Claude Rains

  Sealed Cargo was based on The Gaunt Woman, a novel by Edmund Gilligan. Dana Andrews stars as Pat Bannon, a Newfoundland fishing-boat captain during WW II. Coming to the rescue of an endangered vessel, Bannon finds himself in the middle of a nest of Nazi spies. Reasoning that he'll never be able to alert the authorities, Bannon takes it upon himself to scuttle an impending large-scale German submarine attack. Claude Rains is the personification of cultured evil as the head Nazi naval officer, while Carla Balenda co-stars as an innocent bystander who may well lose her life as a result of Bannon's planned heroics. Sealed Cargo was one of several moneymaking films released by RKO Radio during one of the studio's most profitable years.