Preston Foster

Irene Hervey

Walter Woolf King

Frank Jenks

Fred Keating

Regis Toomey

Frances Robinson

Raymond Parker

Clay Clement

Doris Rankin

Harry Hayden

Frank Reicher

Milburn Stone

Jack Norton

George Lynn

Eddie Acuff

Mary Field

Michael Mark

Arthur T. Horman

Charles Previn

Earl Felton

Joe May

Ken Goldsmith

John W. Boyle

Comedy

Drama

Society Smugglers

Universal Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Having just watched the "Poseidon Adventure" (1972) it thought I ought to stick to the maritime theme and watch this rather enjoyable, if pretty procedural smuggling yarn. Preston Foster has some charm as "Sully" and Irene Harvey some pluck as "Joan", involved in an investigation by the US treasury department into a clever criminal operation that uses some pretty ingenious publicity stunts and willing tourists to distribute their illicit contraband. There's plenty of chemistry between the two in the lead; it moves along at a fairly ripping pace - with the occasional bit of wit and the odd twist to keep it interesting. The ending isn't up to much, and the romance between Foster and Harvey does, on occasion, clutter up the flow of the adventure, but an adventure it is - and at just over an hour is well worth a watch.

English

Eddie Hall - "Society Smugglers" - 1939