To the Ends of the Earth (1948)

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Country: USA
Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Release: 1948-02-27
Director: Robert Stevenson (I) (1905–1986)
Writers: Jay Richard Kennedy
Language: English
Stars: Dick Powell , Signe Hasso , Maylia , Ludwig Donath , Vladimir Sokoloff (I) (1889–1962) , Edgar Barrier , John Hoyt , Marcel Journet , Luis Van Rooten , Fritz Leiber
Runtime: 109 min
Awards: 1 nomination
AKA: To the Ends of the Earth , Opium (France, French Republic) , Narcotica (Finland) , Opium , Opium (Sweden) , Opium (Austria) , To the Ends of the Earth (United States of America) , Oppio (Italy) , Hasta el fin del mundo (Mexico) , Până la capătul lumii (Romania) , Ehthroi tis koinonias (Greece) , To the Ends of the Earth (United Kingdom) , To the Ends of the Earth (Canada) , До краев земли , Opio (Spain) , The Twenty Seventh Day (United States of America) , Assigned to Treasury (United States of America) , Ópio (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Até os Confins da Terra (Brazil) , Opium (Denmark)
Plot: Based on the files of the United States Department of Treasury. Commissioner Michael Barrows is an American Government Agent. On board a Coast Gaurd boat off the California coast he chases a ship. The Captain of the ship, the Kira Maru, panics and ruthlessly sends 100 Chinese slaves to a watery death. Barrows recovers a live preserver that tells him the ship is out of Shanghai. He travels there to track down the ship's captain and discovers that these deaths point to a huge drug smuggling operation. In Shanghai, while searching for the captain of the Kira Maru, he becomes suspicious of a women, Ann Grant, believing she's Jean Hawks the narcotics ringleader. He follows the narcotics trail "to the ends of the Earth" taking him from Shanghai to Cairo, Beirut and Havana to stop the drugs and the jean Hawks ring at the US border.
IMDB:tt0040887