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Malaya

6.5 98 mins Adventure   Drama   1949
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  
Director(s): Richard Thorpe

After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he could easily smuggle rubber, a key wartime natural resource, out of Malaya has him tasked with doing just that. He manages to get someone from his past, Carnaghan, sprung from Alactraz and together they head off to South East Asia posing as Irishmen. Once there, Carnaghan lines up some of his old cronies and with Royer and a few plantation owners plans to smuggle the rubber out from under the Japanese army's watchful eye.

Casts of Malaya

Spencer Tracy

as Carnaghan

James Stewart

as John Royer

Sydney Greenstreet

as The Dutchman

John Hodiak

as Kellar

Lionel Barrymore

as John Manchester

Gilbert Roland

as Romano

Roland Winters

as Bruno Gruber

Richard Loo

as Colonel Genichi Tomura

Ian MacDonald

as Carlos Tassuma

Tom Helmore

as Matisson

DeForest Kelley

as Lt. Glenson (uncredited)

Frank Wilcox

as Naval Officer with Businessmen (uncredited)

Robert B. Williams

as Army Sergeant (uncredited)

David Fresco

as Barracuda Ed (uncredited)

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