Sealed Cargo

May 19, 1951

1h 30m

★ 6.4

Cargo that blasts the sea wide open!

Overview

A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishingboat realises that it's a U-boat supply ship in disguise, loaded with torpedoes. So, together with his crew and a group of villagers he sets about a plan to blow the ship as well as any U-boats that approach it. Based on the novel "The Gaunt Woman" by Edmund Gilligan.

Genres

War

Drama

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

Sealed Cargo Trailers

Cast

Pat Bannon

Dana Andrews

Margaret McLean

Carla Balenda

Capt. Henrik Skalder

Claude Rains

Konrad

Philip Dorn

Cmdr. James McLean

Onslow Stevens

Steve

Skip Homeier

Holger

Eric Feldary

Skipper Ben

J.M. Kerrigan

Kevin Dolan

Arthur Shields

Caleb

Morgan Farley

Schuster

Whit Bissell

Holtz

Steve Forrest

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