Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Alicia I love this movie so much

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Richie-67-485852 Yes to a picture with a nice message that is delivered in a way where you get it when you get it and not when it is preached or forced upon you. The actors deliver the story to the viewers so that it is believable and acceptable. Nice flow and unraveling of the plot helps us to stay interested and care. Clark Gable has a good time playing his role which helps us like and support him in the movie as does Joan Crawford. Peter Lorre can always be counted on to give you a good scene as well. The movie story focuses on the importance of choices and how they visit with us and how we are affected by them or the lack of them. Along comes someone who points this out and from there, we have a story of heaven or hell, salvation or worse and sides are chosen. The stakes are nothing less than human beings who are tested where they are and in what they are doing or not. Its plausible then to consider that there is a purpose for one being here and ignoring that is not an option. The players in this movie prove the point, each in their own way. I like to eat while watching a good movie. This be one of them. Have a tasty drink and some snacking too. No cell phones or bathroom breaks. Run through this a presented and if you don't...then you, my dear friend... are the Strange Cargo...LOL

atlasmb Strange Cargo sports an excellent cast and they all do a good job with their roles.But the story is a supernatural one so it does not have to conform with reality; anything goes in the plot.The central theme is about man's free will--the ability to choose a path for himself. Each character is given the opportunity to choose between good and evil, altruism and greed, the commandments and sin.And there is one character who represents goodness. He seems to facilitate their choices, but mostly he just watches them makes their choices. He is a witness, a representation of someone's concept of an all-seeing being. What is nonsensical is his apparent ability to predict future happenings. This is a representation of an all-knowing being. Without intending it, the author of this plot has created an irreconcilable dichotomy--how does man possess free will if an omniscient being knows what he will do before he does it?The end result is a plot that defies logic. One might ask how the message or story might be changed if the Cambreau (witness) character were deleted. The other characters could make the same choices without a character predicting their actions. I believe the plot would be even stronger, because the witness is merely a distraction. However, those who like supernatural stories might prefer the movie as it was filmed.Unfortunately, the studio revised the film when pressured by "decency" groups. So we can not be sure what the studio originally intended.As someone who views every film as s glimpses into the art of its time and the community psyche, I won't rate this film too lowly. Technically, it has much to recommend it. And I can forgive the few scenes where the heavy-handed religious symbolism is distracting.

mark.waltz An all-star cast populates "Strange Cargo", a Josef Von Sternberg like movie made at MGM right before war broke out and a few years before its leading lady, Joan Crawford, departed the studio. Still looking quite attractive without much make-up (if any), Crawford plays an older version of Sadie Thompson ("Rain"), a sinner on Devil's Island who is constantly fighting off the advances of a "rat", M'sieu Pig (Peter Lorre), the most hated man (by prisoners and the warden) on the Island. "You're the one man I'd never get low enough to touch", she tells him. But Clark Gable? Yes, in spite of the fact that he's a prisoner, she can't deny her animal lust towards him. When brutish Moll (Albert Dekker) plans an escape, he keeps Gable from joining him by smashing his head with his shoe; That doesn't keep a movie hero like Gable idle for long, and he makes his own escape. Gable & Crawford end up together, Gable takes over as commander of the escapee's boat, and the other escaped convicts begin to ponder spiritual matters as they face their destiny.This is an extremely enjoyable movie that could have been too preachy if not handled carefully. Not all of the escapees reform or believe in what the truly religious characters are spouting. Ian Hunter's character is truly the most profound, and there will be some debate as to who he is supposed to be in the minds of the original writers. Hunter, in fact, gives the best performance, not too holier than thou, but certainly the most profound. Paul Lukas, the veteran leading man from the early 30's, plays a basically nice but moral-less man who is in prison for marrying women he then poisons. The others (J. Edward Bromberg, Eduardo Ciannelli, John Aldredge) have completely different purposes. As for Peter Lorre, this is one of the most vile characters he has ever played, and no one plays creepy like Lorre.While this is certainly not a great film, it is lavishly produced, but is ultimately defeated by the melodramatic screenplay, a few one-dimensional characters, and a bravado of pretentiousness. The chemistry between Gable and Crawford is as affecting as it was in their first film 10 years before, although he was happily married to Carole Lombard at this time. Crawford is brave in taking on a role that seemed to go out of style before the production code came in (films such as "Safe in Hell", "Panama Flo", "Anybody's Woman"), but Gable's overly manly character is lacking much likability. Betty Compson, a star from the early 30's, has a small role as Crawford's pal at the beginning of the film; Her career consisted of roles much like what Crawford is playing here.

Neil Doyle STRANGE CARGO is strange indeed. It's hard to know just what to take from all the allegorical symbolism inherent in the IAN HUNTER Christ-like figure, the only man who shows compassion and tries to steer the other escapees on the straight and narrow.He has his hands full. JOAN CRAWFORD is a shady lady on the lam; CLARK GABLE is at his most rambunctious, bull-headed and arrogant; ALBERT DEKKER is a man on the brink of madness; PAUL LUKAS is a devil may care philanderer looking for easy money; J. EDWARD BROMBERG foolishly throws away a canteen of water and tries to retrieve it in shark infested waters; PETER LORRE has his mind on getting Crawford away from Gable--and they're all strictly losers by the time the story winds up.And it does take time to wind up. Almost two dreary hours of fights, guilt, loneliness, depression, and swamp fever for the viewer, all murkily photographed for atmospheric realism with very few daylight scenes.Gable is proficient as playing the kind of stock character he was famous for and Crawford is rather convincing as a woman who wishes she didn't love him as much as she does. But it's a tiresome tale with very little bits of humor to lighten the tone and some of the dialog is so full of platitudes about good and evil that you may find it a chore to watch at all.Interesting at times, but it misses the mark as entertainment--even serious entertainment.