World for Ransom [Blu-ray]

Director: Robert Aldrich Robert Aldrich

Overview

World for Ransom is an unofficial extension of the popular 1950s TV series China Smith. Most of the Smith personnel, including star Dan Duryea, director Robert Aldrich and cinematographer Joseph Biroc, are on hand for this inexpensive but well-mounted melodrama. Duryea plays a mercenary adventurer who gets mixed up in a scheme by foreign spies (who wear baggy suits and speak with Slavic accents) to kidnap a nuclear scientist. Actually it isn't the whole world that's held for ransom--only the city of Singapore, which the spies threaten with nuclear annihilation. World for Ransom star Dan Duryea is solidly supported by old pros Gene Lockhart, Patric Knowles, Reginald Denny and Nigel Bruce.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/20/2015
UPC:	0887090088206
Original Release:	1954
Rating:	NR
Source:	Olive
Presentation:	[B&W]
Language:	English
Time:	1:22:00
Sales rank:	18,827

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Dan Duryea	Mike Callahan
Patric Knowles	Julian March
Gene Lockhart	Alexis Pederas
Reginald Denny	Maj. Bone
Nigel Bruce	Gov. Coutts
Marian Carr	Frennessey March
Douglas Dumbrille	Inspector McCollum
Keye Luke	Wong
Clarence Lung	Chan
Lou Nova	Guzik
Arthur Shields	Sean O'Connor
Carmen D'Antonio	Dancer
Frank De Vol	Composer

Technical Credits

Lindsay Hardy

Robert Aldrich	Director,Producer
Bernard Tabakin	Producer
Lindsay Hardy	Screenwriter