Directed by:
Lew LandersScreenplay:
John TwistCinematography:
Nicholas MusuracaComposer:
Robert Russell BennettCast:
Victor McLaglen, Chester Morris, Wendy Barrie, Alan Hale, Barry Fitzgerald, Allan Lane, Halliwell Hobbes, Cy Kendall, Paul Guilfoyle, John Wray, Emory Parnell (more)Plots(1)
Doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) pursues an old flame, nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie), aboard the SS Arcturus, bound from Shanghai to San Francisco. Challenging Craig's courtship is Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen), the ship's chief engineer. The rivalry comes to a sudden halt when it's revealed a Chinese stowaway has unknowingly brought along a passenger - cholera. As the disease ravages its way from below deck towards the passenger berths, Crusher must maintain control over a terrified, mutinous crew while Craig and Grayson frantically try to keep the disease in check. Initially conceived as the bottom half of a bill, Pacific Liner quickly sailed to topliner status thanks to its A-list cast (including Alan Hale and Barry Fitzgerald), Lew Landers' lean direction, an impressive deco set from Van Nest Polglase, cinematography from the great Nicholas Musuraca and a soaring score from Robert Russell Bennett. (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Victor McLaglen
UK
Best movies:
The Informer (1935)
Dishonored (1931)
The Quiet Man (1952)
Chester Morris
USA
Best movies:
The Bat Whispers (1930)
Red-Headed Woman (1932)
The Divorcee (1930)
Wendy Barrie
UK
Best movies:
Dead End (1937)
Day-Time Wife (1939)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Alan Hale
USA
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Barry Fitzgerald
Ireland
Best movies:
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Going My Way (1944)
Allan Lane
USA
Best movies:
Air Force (1943)
Colt .45 (1950)
Hell Bent for Leather (1960)
Halliwell Hobbes
UK
Best movies:
Gaslight (1944)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Cy Kendall
USA
Best movies:
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
San Francisco (1936)
Paul Guilfoyle
USA
Best movies:
White Heat (1949)
Julius Caesar (1953)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
John Wray
USA
Best movies:
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Emory Parnell
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
Sabrina (1954)
Anthony Warde
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
Storm Warning (1951)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Frank Mills
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
Limelight (1952)
Fury (1936)
Selmer Jackson
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Sudden Fear (1952)
Arthur Loft
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Walter Miller
USA
Best movies:
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Virginia City (1940)
The Raven (1935)
Donald Douglas
UK
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Gilda (1946)
Charles Trowbridge
Mexico
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
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Captains Courageous (1937)
John Bleifer
Russian Empire
Best movies:
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Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
Douglas Walton
Canada
Best movies:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Scarface (1932)
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