Appointment in Honduras

Oct 16, 1953

1h 19m

★ 5.7

Emotions stripped bare! Adventure beyond compare!

Overview

On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards

Genres

Adventure

Thriller

Crime

Production Companies

Benedict Bogeaus Production

Appointment in Honduras Trailers

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Cast

Jim Corbett

Glenn Ford

Sylvia Sheppard

Ann Sheridan

Harry Sheppard

Zachary Scott

Reyes

Rodolfo Acosta

Castro

Jack Elam

Telegrapher (uncredited)

Stuart Whitman

Capt. McTaggart

Stanley Andrews

Jiminez

Ric Roman

Bermudez

Rico Alaniz

Luis

Paul Conrad

Hidalgo (uncredited)

Mel Welles

Stranger (uncredited)

Michael Vallon

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