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...escape of a bunch of convicts from Devil's Island who want to fight on our team, and the plot is almost unwound before the film gets around to the actual passage to Marseille. We can't remember having heard the story before: it's about a French freighter carrying a valuable shipment of nickel, and also carrying fascists and democrats who struggle for control of the freight...
Despite some expository defects, "Passage to Marseille" is interesting and exciting stuff. And its political theme is inescapable: the struggle between the fascists and the democrats on board the freighter reflects the major struggle of the world at large...
Acting Captain Chow Jockie brought his 5,000-ton British freighter into Port Elizabeth's bustling, cliff-rimmed harbor. A veteran officer in the British Mercantile Marine and a welcome caller at many a port, the sea-beaten Chinese skipper had never before been in South Africa...
...Passage to Marseille" starring Humbrey Bogart is a story of a French freighter making its way through the Caribbean bound for Marseille. It picks up five men adrift on a raft, who later confide to a Captain Freycnet(Claude Rains) that they are fugitives from Devils Island, all of them French patriots sworn o return to France and fight the Boche. The leader of the five is Matrac (Bogart) who was the victim of a trumped-up charge of murder and treason, in politically upset pre-war France...
...hundred miles west of Hafar-el-Ats, the U.S. presented Ibn Saud's Arabia with another, even more persuasive Lend-Lease cargo. At sweaty, sultry Jidda on the Red Sea, where legend has buried Eve and the main road runs to Mecca, an American freighter unloaded 7,000,000 silver coins (riyals), minted in Philadelphia and valued...