Word: smugglers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through a crooked shyster (Wallace Ford), he makes a deal with a smuggler to carry eight Chinese into the U.S., runs into a double cross that forces him to kill the smuggler and dump his passengers onto a Mexican beach. Then Morgan's troubles multiply until they drive him into a much riskier scheme: to pilot a getaway boat for four ruthless holdup men and kill them for the reward money before they can fulfill their plain intention of murdering...
Before abandoning itself to derring-do, the film tries briefly to ring true by doggedly underplaying its account of how Stewart, a down & out newspaperman, persuades the government to free a convicted smuggler (Tracy) and send the two of them off on the rubber-smuggling project. The understatement is so clumsily overdone and ill-suited to the characters and situation that it defeats...