Gun Cargo

Gun Cargo (1949)

ActionCrimeDrama

A Maritime Board of Inquiry investigates the loss of the merchant ship, the Black Rover . Its captain, Jim Parker, offers the following testimony on his own behalf: Jim is recommended by Fred Winthrop to his father, owner of the Winthrop Shipping Line, to command the Black Rover after its captain and crew refuse to make the voyage. Jim, who has just received his captain's papers, agrees, unaware that Winthrop is illegally running a cargo of contraband weapons. The film has never had a theatrical release. Production began in 1930 under the title "Contraband," stopped when the producers ran out of money, then began again under the title "Contraband Cargo." Production soon stopped again and was not resumed until 1939, when new footage was shot and footage from HELL HARBOR (1930) was edited in. The film was still deemed not suitable for theatrical distribution, and it was not until 1949 that it was finally released... for late night airing on television.

Director: Jack Irwin

Casts

	Rex Lease as Capt. Jim Parker
	Smith Ballew as Singing Sailor
	William Farnum as Board of Inquiry Chairman
	Gibson Gowland as Henry Morgan
	Robert Frazer as First Mate Fred Winthrop
	Allene Ray as Helen - Stowaway
	John Ince as Frederick Winthrop Sr.
	Victor Adamson as
	Jack Kirk as
	James Sheridan as

Crew