Yellow Cargo

Yellow Cargo
Yellow Cargo
Directed by	Crane Wilbur
Written by	Crane Wilbur (original story and screenplay)
Produced by	(associate producer); George A. Hirliman (producer)
Starring	See below
Cinematography	Mack Stengler
Edited by
Production; company	Condor Productions
Distributed by	Grand National Films
Release date	November 8, 1936;
Running time	63 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Yellow Cargo is a 1936 American Poverty Row crime film written and directed by Crane Wilbur for Grand National Pictures. The film was rereleased in 1947 as Sinful Cargo. Starring Conrad Nagel as Alan O'Connor and producer George A. Hirliman's wife Eleanor Hunt as Bobbie Reynolds, it was the first of four G-man film series; the others were Navy Spy (1937), The Gold Racket (1937), and Bank Alarm (1937).^[1]

Plot summary[]

Alan O'Connor, a Federal Agent with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics is transferred to the Immigration and Naturalization Service by flying to California in a Boeing 247, His mission is to use his expertise to assist them with identifying how a dangerous gang is infiltrating Chinese illegal immigrants into the United States. He meets newspaper reporter Bobbie Reynolds and her comedy relief photographer Speedy "Bulb" Callahan who are trying to obtain an interview with the director and producer of Globe Productions, a motion picture company who has yet to make a film. As O'Connor has stage acting experience, he his goaded by Reynolds to get a role with Globe Productions.

The trio discover that the film company brings twenty film extras in Chinese theatrical makeup to one of the Channel Islands of California to shoot a film. Production is stopped, the extras are shipped back to the mainland by a different ship, the original boat brings back the same number of Chinese to the mainland.

Cast[]

Conrad Nagel as Alan O'Connor
Eleanor Hunt as Bobbie Reynolds
Vince Barnett as Speedy 'Bulb' Callahan
Jack La Rue as Al Perrelli
Claudia Dell as Fay Temple
Harry Strang as Joe Breeze - Bus Driver
John Ivans as District Commissioner Dietrich
Vance Carroll as Burke Darrell
Lillian Wessner as Nurse
Crane Wilbur as Montie Brace

Production[]

Production of Yellow Cargo began on December 2, 1935, at the Talisman Studios in East Los Angeles.^[2]

Reception[]

Variety wrote the film featured "a plot that has a certain amount of freshness and pretty good entertainment pull" with other reviewers acknowledging the film's innovativbe story and having solid production values for a low budget film.^[3]

Notes[]

^ p. 5 Okuda, Ted Grand National, Producers Releasing Corporation, and Screen Guild/Lippert: Complete Filmographies with Studio Histories McFarland & Companies, 1 Aug 1989
^ The Film Daily, 13 November 1935, p 10. Accessed 22 June 2020.
^ p. 337 Schmidt, Björn A. Visualizing Orientalness: Chinese Immigration and Race in U.S. Motion Pictures, 1910s-1930s Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2017

External links[]

Yellow Cargo at the American Film Institute Catalog
Yellow Cargo at IMDb
Synopsis at AllMovie
Yellow Cargo is available for free download at the Internet Archive

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[1] . 5 Okuda, Ted Grand National, Producers Releasing Corporation, and Screen Guild/Lippert: Complete Filmographies with Studio Histories McFarland & Companies, 1 Aug 1989

[2] The Film Daily, 13 November 1935, p 10. Accessed 22 June 2020.

[3] . 337 Schmidt, Björn A. Visualizing Orientalness: Chinese Immigration and Race in U.S. Motion Pictures, 1910s-1930s Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2017

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