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White Cargo is a 1942 American drama film starring Hedy Lamarr and Walter Pidgeon, and directed by Richard Thorpe. Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it is based on the 1923 London and Broadway hit play by Leon Gordon, which was in turn adapted from the 1912 novel Hell's Playground by Ida Vera Simonton.
White Cargo: Directed by Richard Thorpe. With Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson. The story takes place at a British plantation in Africa where Tondelayo entices all the Brits, especially Harry Witzel.
A particularly sweaty take on the familiar "native temptress in the jungle" tale, White Cargo (1942) marked a successful attempt at image transformation for international film star Hedy Lamarr as Tondelayo, the half-Egyptian, sarong-clad femme fatale with broken English who spells doom for her white male co-stars.
Overview. In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910.
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In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who’d seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great ...
