"The Hi-jack caper that scorched the seven seas!"
After WW2, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the USA.
Social & External
The people behind it
John Russell
Jordan
June Blair
Paula
Stuart Whitman
Eddie Mason
Margo Woode
Jan
George E. Mather
Stanley Thomas (as George Mather)
Stanley Adams
Herbert Fay Jr.
Frank Fenton
Harry Quantro
Virginia De Lee
Stripteaser (as Virginia DeLee)
Gene O'Donnell
Purser
Gordon Armitage
Seaman (uncredited)
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