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Captain Scarface

Captain Scarfaceis a 1953 American thriller film directed byPaul Guilfoyle,and starring Barton MacLane, Virginia Grey, and Leif Erickson.

Captain Scarface
Directed byPaul Guilfoyle
Written byCharles Lang (original story and screenplay)
Produced byJack Rieger(associate producer)
Hal Roach Jr.(producer)
CinematographyNorbert Brodine
Edited byGene Fowler Jr.
Music byLeon Klatzkin
Distributed byAstor Pictures
Release date
  • 15 October 1953(1953-10-15)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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In the waters off South America, the Soviets torpedo thetramp steamerandbanana boatSSBañosand murder the survivors with the cooperation of the ship's radioman, Clegg who escapes with his life and a promise of $5000. The Soviets have mocked up their own ship as the SSBañosthat contains an atomic device with the goal of sailing theBañosto the locks of thePanama Canalwhere they will detonate their ship on an atomicsuicide mission.

To avoid suspicion the new crew of the mocked upBañostakes the contingent of passengers scheduled to sail on the originalBaños.One last minute addition is AmericanexpatriateSam Wilton who has overstayed his welcome as aplantationoverseer by making love to the plantation owner's wife. As a result, Sam and his lover's husband are both wounded in a gunfight. Sam needs to escape to the United States without his passport that is still at the plantation.

At the Los Rios Hotel in the port city of San Brejo that is also Sam's watering hole, Sam asks his friend Manuel the owner to get him a passport in a false name to escape the vengeance of the plantation owner and the sympathetic local authorities. As Sam waits and drinks, he observes the passengers of the SSBañosin the hotel; an older American couple Fred and Kate Dilts, American Everett Crofton, the mysterious Mr Kroll, and two Germans, Dr Yeager and his daughter Elsa. The new Captain of theBaños,"Captain Scarface" sends Clegg to meet Kroll at the Los Rios Hotel for his just reward. When the passengers are taken to theBaños,Kroll, Clegg and Sam remain behind at the hotel. In the interest of economy and security, Kroll attempts to murder Clegg, but Clegg kills Kroll first. Escaping with the money, Clegg shoots at Manuel and Sam, who responds by shooting Clegg. Never wasting an opportunity, Sam splits the $5000 with Manuel and modifies the late Mr Kroll's passport with own photograph and takes Kroll's boarding pass to theBaños.

Boarding the ship, Sam as Kroll delays meeting Captain Scarface in order to interview Elsa to find out the lay of the land. He pieces together that Dr. Yeager is a German atomic scientist allowed to escape from the Soviet Union in order to work the atomic device in exchange for the safety of his daughter, and Kroll was a Soviet agent assigned to bring in the Yeagers and kill Clegg.

Also on the ship is a venomousfer-de-lancesnake concealed in a cargo of bananas.

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