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World for Ransom is a 1954 American film noir drama directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Dan Duryea, Patric Knowles, Gene Lockhart, Reginald Denny, and Nigel Bruce (in his final film role). Many of the actors and sets used in the film were from the Dan Duryea television show China Smith.
World for Ransom (1954) Full length Film noir crime drama movie starring Dan Duryea. The film was set in Singapore and Duryea plays a veteran working in Singapore as a private...
- 82 min
- 455.8K
- Broken Trout
World for Ransom: Directed by Robert Aldrich. With Dan Duryea, Gene Lockhart, Patric Knowles, Reginald Denny. In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Robert Aldrich
- 1954-01-31
Jun 3, 2022 · World for Ransom is a 1954 American FILM NOlR drama directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Dan Duryea, Patric Knowles, Gene Lockhart, Reginald Denny, Nigel Bruce (in his final film role) and Marian Carr.
- 82 min
World for Ransom was a variation on Dan Duryea's early 1950's television series China Smith, which was set in Shanghai. Both producer Bernard Tabakin and director Robert Aldrich also worked on that series. A modern source states that the film was shot in nine days on a $120,000 budget.
- Robert Aldrich, Nate Slott
- Dan Duryea
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.
An adventurer (Dan Duryea) joins a plot to kidnap a scientist who knows the secret of the hydrogen bomb.
- Mystery & Thriller
