Pacific Liner (1939)
1h 16m
Running Time
January 6, 1939Release Date
Pacific Liner (1939)
1h 16m
Running Time
January 6, 1939Release Date
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Plot.
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
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Cast & Crew.
Victor McLaglen
Crusher McKay
Chester Morris
Doctor Craig
Wendy Barrie
Ann Grayson
Alan Hale
Gallagher
Barry Fitzgerald
Britches
Lew Landers
Director
Allan Lane
Bilson
Halliwell Hobbes
Captain Mathews
John Twist
Writer
Anthony Coldeway
Writer
Cy Kendall
Deadeyes
Henry Roberts Symonds
Writer
Paul Guilfoyle
Wishart
Robert Sisk
Producer
John Wray
Metcalfe
Nicholas Musuraca
Cinematographer
Emory Parnell
Olaf
Adia Kuznetzoff
Silvio
John Bleifer
Kovac
Ted Billings
Stoker (uncredited)
Eddie Bracken
Junior officer (uncredited)
Tyler Brooke
Ship Steward (uncredited)
Donald Douglas
Ship's Officer (uncredited)
Grace Hayle
Fat Passenger (uncredited)
Selmer Jackson
San Francisco Port Doctor (uncredited)
Florence Lake
Miss Smith - Dancing with Crusher (uncredited)
Arthur Loft
Engineering Officer Dearborn (uncredited)
Walter Miller
Ship's Officer (uncredited)
Frank Mills
Crew Member (uncredited)
Miki Morita
Chinese Stowaway (uncredited)
Jack O'Shea
Navigator (uncredited)
Douglas Walton
Engineering Officer Bates (uncredited)
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Wiki.
Pacific Liner is a 1939 American action/adventure film directed by Lew Landers. The film stars Victor McLaglen, Chester Morris and Wendy Barrie. Pacific Liner is primarily set in the engineering section of the vessel, where a stowaway has infected the crew with cholera. While passengers remain oblivious, the ship’s doctor (Morris) and nurse (Barrie) work to control the infection and heal their patients while the engineer (McLaglen)—who scoffs at “bugs”—keeps the stokers at their jobs filling the ship’s boilers with coal to make the best time to San Francisco.