Adventure Thriller Crime
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards
Directed by
Jacques Tourneur
Written by
Karen DeWolf, Mario Silveira, Jack Cornall
Ric Roman
Jiminez
Jack Elam
Castro
Glenn Ford
Jim Corbett
Stuart Whitman
Telegrapher (uncredited)
Rico Alaniz
Bermudez
Zachary Scott
Harry Sheppard
Mel Welles
Hidalgo (uncredited)
Ann Sheridan
Sylvia Sheppard
Stanley Andrews
Capt. McTaggart
Rodolfo Acosta
Reyes
Robert Brown
Helmsman (uncredited)
Michael Vallon
Stranger (uncredited)
Paul Marion
Wounded Soldier (uncredited)
Steve Conte
Stranger (uncredited)
Paul Conrad
Luis
Charles Soldani
Indian (uncredited)
Julian Rivero
President Prieto (uncredited)
Joey Ray
General (uncredited)
John Mansfield
Lieutenant (uncredited)
Pepe Hern
Stranger (uncredited)
Ron Gans
Mexican Lieutenant (uncredited)
Henry A. Escalante
Soldier (uncredited)
Zarco Carreno
Bit Role (uncredited)

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