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Status
Released
Release
1938
Runtime
1h 8m
"He changed his prison stripes for a pirate's hat !"
A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.
19 Cast Members
Gail Patrick
Dale Borden
Lloyd Nolan
Raymond Grayson
Harry Carey
Captain Glennan
J. Carrol Naish
Steve Murkil
Robert Preston
Robert MacArthur
Anthony Quinn
Lou Gedney
Dennis Morgan
First Mate Rogers (as Richard Stanley)
Richard Denning
Harry Vay
Konstantin Shayne
Murok
Eddie Marr
Dave Carter
Emory Parnell
Olaf
Paul Fix
'Nails' Miller
Virginia Vale
Dixie (as Dorothy Howe)
Monte Blue
Officer
John Hart
1st Radio Operator
Phil Warren
Radio Operator (as Philip Warren)
Porter Hall
Matthew Talbot
Tom Tyler
Gus Banshek
Virginia Dabney
Bonnie Larkin (uncredited)
