Mystery Sea Raider
Cast & Crew
Edward Dmytryk
Carole Landis
Henry Wilcoxon
Onslow Stevens
Kathleen Howard
Wallace Rairden
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Synopsis
At the onset of World War II, June McCarthy returns to the United States from Europe, hoping to renew her relationship with Capt. Jimmy Madden. Jimmy is insulted when she urges him to give up his "rustbucket" of a ship for a "real" job, but June remains determined to help him. She enlists the help of Carl Cutler, a businessman she met on her voyage home, and he hires Jimmy's scow for his import-export business. Unknown to June, however, Carl is a German saboteur who has ordered his thugs to kill her because she knows too much. When the assassination fails, Carl takes June hostage aboard Jimmy's ship. After a German submarine intercepts the boat, Carl reveals that he is really a German commander intending to use the ship for the German war effort and, after imprisoning Jimmy and his crew, orders the ship be painted to look like a Danish vessel. Carl then uses the ship to wage a mission of destruction across the Carribean. After June conceives a plan to notify the outside world of the raider, Jimmy regains his trust in her, and together they proceed with the scheme. Using flares cut from life preservers, they send S.O.S. messages in various languages until their flares are intercepted by a British ship, which then comes to the aid of the captured freighter. In a final battle of wits, Carl refuses to surrender to the British and, after releasing his prisoners, goes down with his ship. Rescued by the British, Jimmy and June return together to the United States.
Director
Edward Dmytryk
Cast
Carole Landis
Henry Wilcoxon
Onslow Stevens
Kathleen Howard
Wallace Rairden
Sven Hugo Borg
Henry Victor
Roland Varno
Louis Adlon
Will Kaufman
Monte Blue
Matthew Boulton
Gohr Van Vleck
Jean Del Val
Kay Linaker
Reed Howes
Philip Warren
Darryl Hickman
Norma Nelson
Leonard Willey
Wanda Mckay
Ernest Whitman
Jesse Lee Brooks
Eddie Brian
Pierre Watkin
Wally Maher
Henry Von Zynda
Anthony Marsh
Harry Depp
Roland Drew
Hans Fuerberg
Albert D'arno
Ferdinand Schumann-heink
Denis D'auburn
William Castello
Tom Mizer
Philip Winter
Vernon Downing
Leyland Hodgson
Sid D'albrook
Tom Wintle
Chuck Hamilton
George Magrill
Dick Winslow
Harry Bailey
Emmett Vogan
Ben Taggart
John Indrisano
Eric Alden
Nicholas Vehr
Worth Crouch
Larry Lawson
Jack Chapin
Jack Roberts
Knud Kreuger
Otto Reichow
Charles Flynn
Carl Grayson
Holger Bendixen
Douglas Grant
Edward Groag
Rudolph Steinbeck
Chester Walker
Sigurd Tor
Hans Schumm
Crew
Hans Dreier
Harry Fischbeck
Stanley Goldsmith
Robert Grant
Edith Head
Gordon Jennings
Gordon Jennings
Christine Johnson
William Le Baron
Archie Marshek
Harry Mills
Walter Oberst
Robert Odell
Edward E. Paramore Jr.
Wallace Rairden
Andrea Setaro
Dewey Wrigley
Eugene J. Zukor
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Notes
The working title of this picture was Mystery Raider. The film marked the American motion picture debut of actor Kurt Kreuger (1916-2006), who was credited as Knud Kreuger early in his career.
