Cargo to Capetown

John Ireland made a long and decent living playing in "B" films. He never made it big beyond his Oscar nomination, ironically enough, with his co-star in this film, Brodrick Crawford. This story, which focuses on a merchant ship of which Ireland is the Captain, has to take a cargo and the Chief Engineer, Crawford has decided to get married to Ireland's ex-girlfriend, Ellen Drew. A plan to Shanghai Crawford goes sour when Drew, the ex-lady friend remains aboard and proceeds to get re-involved with Ireland. It gets hairy as Crawford is fed false information about his old pal and plots his demise. However, in the end, Crawford winds up sacrificing himself to reconcile the two star-crossed lovers, Drew and Ireland. All in all, not a great film but typical of 50s potboilers, those films which were made to be fillers between the "big shows," in those halcyon days before the invasion of the glass tubes into American living rooms.