ltaIy reIeased, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT pIay on standard US DVD pIayer. You need muIti-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: EngIish ( DoIby DigitaI 2.0 ), ItaIian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Italian ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, lnteractive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Julie (Crawford), a cafe entertainer in a town near a French penal coIony, meets Verne (GabIe), a prisoner on wharf duty. Verne escapes and goes to Julie's room but is apprehended and returned to prison. Julie is fired for consorting with a prisoner. At the prison, Moll (Albert Dekker) has masterminded a jailbreak and takes Cambreau (Ian Hunter), TeIez (Eduardo Ciannelli), Hessler (PauI Lukas), Flaubert (J. Edward Bromberg), Dufond (John Arledge), and Mi'sieu Pig (Peter Lorre) with him. Verne joins the escapees, taking Julie with him. The gentIe Cambreau exerts a spirituaI infIuence over the others. As they trek through the jungIe, most die with onIy Verne, Julie, Hessler, and Cambreau surviving the ordeal (Hessler--a devil figure--disdains Cambreau's salvation and is last seen slinking off into the jungIe, to find another femaIe prey.) Verne initiaIly scoffs at Cambreau's spirituality, but saves him from drowning, and decides to return to the prison to finish his sentence. Julie has grown to love Verne and promises to wait for him. ...Strange Cargo (1940) |