Written by Seton Miller and Robert Thoeren. Pearl smuggler Fred MacMurray returns to Singapore to retrieve stashed jewels - finds his wife he thought dead Ava Gardner is alive but with amnesia and now married to plantation owner Roland Culver. Policeman Richard Haydn is after him, as is criminal Thomas Gomez and henchman George Lloyd. Spring Byington and Porter hall are tourists; Maylai a former servant.
Shot at Universal by Maury Gertsman, scored by Daniele Amfitheatrof. Edited by William Hornbeck.
"We should really be drinking Gin Slings with this," I said to Q.
"Any excuse," she said. "You don't even know what they are."
"It would be a good way to find out."
For the record it's Dry Gin, lemon juice, cane sugar syrup and soda water. Quite nice, I would have thought.
It's not the best film in the world, but quite engaging. Stock footage of Singapore is interesting.
It's a surprise to see Culver in a Hollywood film. Apparently he was signed to Paramount for a two year contract beginning with To Each His Own in 1946, also appeared in Down to Earth, 1947, Rita Hayworth, The Emperor Waltz, 1948 Bing Crosby and The Great Lover, Bob Hope 1949.
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