Dangerous Waters
Cast & Crew
Lambert Hillyer
Jack Holt
Robert Armstrong
Grace Bradley
Diana Gibson
Charlie Murray
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Synopsis
Jim Marlowe, the first mate aboard the ship Star of Brazil , takes command after his captain suddenly dies. After putting down a mutinous crew and extinguishing a fire, Jim sees the passenger vessel safely to port. Jim is given a commendation for bravery, as is his bosun, "Dusty" Johnson, and Jim receives the admiration of Ruth Denning, whose father was the first captain Jim served under on the S. S. Astoria . Unfortunately, Jim is held liable for an illegal load of gunpowder found aboard the vessel, and is blacklisted. He is eventually hired as the captain of the now aging civilian vessel, Astoria , but is unaware of the owners' plan to sink the ship to cash in on an insurance claim. Dusty signs on as first mate after passing his exams, and Jim's wife Joan is thrilled to finally get to join her husband on an ocean voyage, especially as she also has lustful notions about Dusty. Before departing, Ruth and Joan meet, and as Joan recognizes Ruth's love for Jim, Ruth realizes that Joan does not really love her husband. After the ship finally sets sail for Valparaiso, seaman "Chips," who is working for the owner, reports a leak in the hull that he created himself. Jim orders chief engineer McDuffy to start the electric pump, but McDuffy has dismantled it, so the sailors use hand pumps. When the pumps are sabotaged, Jim realizes he is in the midst of a racket to sink the ship, but refuses to give up. Chips knocks Dusty unconscious and leaves him to drown in a hold rapidly filling with water. Chips locks Jim in with Dusty when he goes to rescue him, but first mate Bill MacKeechie rescues them, at the cost of his own life. Before he dies, however, Bill confesses to Jim that he was reluctantly involved in the insurance fraud scheme. A severe storm hits the crippled ship and Joan becomes drunk when Jim sabotages the life boats so she cannot abandon ship along with the mutinous sailors. In her stupor, she reveals her sordid past as taxi dancer Gertie Swenson, "the sailor's delight." McDuffy reports to Jim that he built a pump out of the ship's generator, and Jim sees the ship safely to harbor. Jim is hailed as a hero, offered command of a brand new passenger liner, and Lloyd's insurance company gives him $10,000 for saving the ship. In Valparaiso, Joan tells Jim to mail her the divorce papers, and she saunters off with a local named Carlos. Jim, Dusty and McDuffy go into the bar for a celebratory drink, but when Jim gets a congratulatory telegram from Ruth, he immediately responds.
Director
Lambert Hillyer
Cast
Jack Holt
Robert Armstrong
Grace Bradley
Diana Gibson
Charlie Murray
Willard Robertson
Guy Usher
Dewey Robinson
Ed Gargan
Edwin Maxwell
Richard Alexander
Walter Miller
Don Briggs
John King
Edward Earle
Matty Kemp
Lafe Mckee
Henry Barrows
Charles K. French
Paddy O'flynn
Grace Cunard
Howard C. Hickman
Leila Mcintyre
Betty Healy
Clara Kimball Young
Helen Brown
E. Alyn Warren
William Gilbert
Stanley Adams
Lloyd Whitlock
Earl Eby
Morgan Wallace
Sugar Adair
Joe Torillo
Jack Lowe
Tom Keegan
Sven Borg
Al Ferguson
Charles Murphy
Charles Sullivan
Andy White
Leslie Cooper
Howard Christie
Robert Hale
Art La Forrest
Priscilla Lawson
Joan Woodbury
Crew
Ralph Berger
Malcolm Stuart Boylan
Harry Forbes
John P. Fulton
Myrtle Gibsone
Hazel Jamieson
Dick Johnson
Gilbert Kurland
Carl Laemmle
Carl Laemmle
Harry Mancke
Fred S. Meyer
William Nolte
Maurice Pivar
Lieut. Francis C. Pollard U.s.c.g.
Robert Pritchard
Theodore Reeves
Richard Schayer
Murray Seldeen
Alfred Stern
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Notes
According to the onscreen credits, the original screen story by Theodore Reeves was called Glory Hole.
