Cross Channel (1955)
Charter-boat owner "Tex" Parker is framed on a murder rap by a gang of jewel-and-American currency smugglers operating from the coasts of England and France, with a mid-channel rendezvous. The smugglers use him, his boat and partner, "Soapy", to carry their goods back and forth across the English. During one of the trips, "Tex" is thrown overboard, but is picked up by a French fishing boat and the fisherman take him back to their village, Porte Soliare, where he meets Jacqueline. People who appear to be quite dead early on turn out to be not dead later on, and money and swag and goods keep changing hands with such regularity that, at one point, one guy is searching for something he already has (and doesn't know it), while another guy isn't searching for it because he thinks he has it...but doesn't.
Director: R.G. Springsteen
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Wayne Morris as Tex Parker |
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Yvonne Furneaux as Jacqueline Moreau |
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Arnold Marlé as Papa Moreau |
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Charles Laurence as Jean-Pierre Moreau |
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Peter Sinclair as Soapy |
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Patrick Allen as Hugo Platt |
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Carl Jaffe as Otto Dagoff |
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Michael Golden as W.L. Carrick |
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June Ashley as Kitty |
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Jack Lambert as Detective Sergeant Burroughs |
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Jacques Cey as Duclos |
| Directing | R.G. Springsteen | Director |
| Camera | Basil Emmott | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Rex Rienits | Writer |
| Editing | John Seabourne Sr. | Editor |
| Production | William N. Boyle | Associate Producer |
| Directing | Jimmy Shingfield | Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Betty Baugh | Hairstylist |
| Production | Bernard Hanson | Unit Production Manager |
| Sound | Charles Poulton | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Lambert Williamson | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ernest Gasser | Makeup Artist |
| Art | John Stoll | Art Direction |
