Pacific Liner
1939An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
Acted in
Victor McLaglen
as Crusher McKay
Chester Morris
as Doctor Craig
Wendy Barrie
as Ann Grayson
Alan Hale
as Gallagher
Barry Fitzgerald
as Britches
Allan Lane
as Bilson
Halliwell Hobbes
as Captain Mathews
Cy Kendall
as Deadeyes
Paul Guilfoyle
as Wishart
John Wray
as Metcalfe
Emory Parnell
as Olaf
Adia Kuznetzoff
as Silvio
John Bleifer
as Kovac
Ted Billings
as Stoker (uncredited)
Eddie Bracken
as Junior officer (uncredited)
Tyler Brooke
as Ship Steward (uncredited)
Donald Douglas
as Ship's Officer (uncredited)
Grace Hayle
as Fat Passenger (uncredited)
Selmer Jackson
as San Francisco Port Doctor (uncredited)
Florence Lake
as Miss Smith - Dancing with Crusher (uncredited)
Arthur Loft
as Engineering Officer Dearborn (uncredited)
Walter Miller
as Ship's Officer (uncredited)
Frank Mills
as Crew Member (uncredited)
Miki Morita
as Chinese Stowaway (uncredited)
Jack O'Shea
as Navigator (uncredited)
Douglas Walton
as Engineering Officer Bates (uncredited)
Anthony Warde
as Crew Member (uncredited)
Ernest Whitman
as Professor - Black Stoker (uncredited)
