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Pacific Liner (1939) Movie Reviews

Pacific Liner (1939)

director of photography: Nicholas Musuraca
cast: Victor McLaglenChester MorrisWendy BarrieAlan HaleBarry FitzgeraldAllan LaneHalliwell HobbesCy Kendall
director: Lew Landers
running time: 76 min.
writer: John Twist
synopsis
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Franciscochief 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 stowawaymeanwhileinfects 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 behindTony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harborwhere the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.