During a three-day pleasure cruise, a murder victim's friend (John Halliday) tries to trick a new bride (Nancy Carroll) into admitting her guilt.During a three-day pleasure cruise, a murder victim's friend (John Halliday) tries to trick a new bride (Nancy Carroll) into admitting her guilt.During a three-day pleasure cruise, a murder victim's friend (John Halliday) tries to trick a new bride (Nancy Carroll) into admitting her guilt.
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- TriviaOne of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Its initial television broadcast took place in Chicago Sunday 4 January 1959 on WBBM (Channel 2); other sponsors resisted its pre-code plot twists, and it appears that it was not taken out of the vault again for a year and a half. However, curiosity and interest in seeing Cary Grant in one of his earliest leading roles overcame that situation and it eventually surfaced in Philadelphia on the Late Show Monday 20 June 1960 on WCAU (Channel 10), in Cleveland 21 October 1960 on WJW (Channel 8), in St. Louis 5 December 1960 on KMOX (Channel 4), in Grand Rapids 13 January 1961 on WOOD (Channel 8), in Orlando 21 February 1961 on WDBO (Channel 6), in Indianapolis 7 March 1961 on WFBM (Channel 6), and in Wheeling, West Virginia 27 March 1961 on WTRF (Channel 7). It was released on DVD 19 April 2016 as one of 18 [Paramount] titles in Universal's Cary Grant: The Vault Collection, and again 12 April 2016 as part of the Universal Vault Series.
- Quotes
Glenda O'Brien: How much do you love me?
Jeffrey Baxter: I'd crawl miles and miles on my hands and knees over broken bottles just for a little kiss.
Featured review
A highly entertaining pre code Cary Grant film
Glenda, (Nancy Carroll) a socialite, is about to marry her true love, lawyer Jeffrey (Cary Grant) but her past catches up with her.
This is a very watchable film with good performances, especially Carroll as the woman who is blackmailed by a sleazy former lover (Louis Calhern). She is later accused of murder by the victims friend (John Halliday). Grant's role at first seemed like just a colorless boyfriend role but he has a striking scene at the end which involves a whip and a gangster who seems like a tough guy at first. This makes the movie and has to be seen to be believed. Grant gives a fine performance and it's easy to see why he became such a big star. He had appeared with Carroll before in another good film "Hot Saturday" and has nice chemistry with her. It is too bad she retired at her peak in the late 1930s, she later came back in the 1950s to do TV work. The mock trial on a cruise ship is another highlight.
This is a very watchable film with good performances, especially Carroll as the woman who is blackmailed by a sleazy former lover (Louis Calhern). She is later accused of murder by the victims friend (John Halliday). Grant's role at first seemed like just a colorless boyfriend role but he has a striking scene at the end which involves a whip and a gangster who seems like a tough guy at first. This makes the movie and has to be seen to be believed. Grant gives a fine performance and it's easy to see why he became such a big star. He had appeared with Carroll before in another good film "Hot Saturday" and has nice chemistry with her. It is too bad she retired at her peak in the late 1930s, she later came back in the 1950s to do TV work. The mock trial on a cruise ship is another highlight.
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- Apr 24, 2018
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- Runtime1 hour 13 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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