Frequently Bought Together
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Product details
|
Reviews
Product Description
During the height of the Second World War, the whaler Daniel Webster sights a shell-damaged Danish schooner eerily adrift in the waters off Newfoundland. Unable to gain any response from the schooner s crew Pat Bannon (Dana Andrews) boards the helpless ship and finds its Captain (Claude Rains) unconscious. Deserted by his crew following their shelling by a German U-boat, Captain Skalder reluctantly agrees for Bannon to tow his vessel into port and make a claim for salvage. But as they head for Newfoundland, the Daniel Webster s radio is sabotaged. Suspicion falls on the whaler s sole passenger, the beautiful and mysterious Margaret McLean (Carla Balenda), and the rescued Danish captain; but as more accidents befall his ship, Bannon has to reluctantly accept that one of his crew is a Nazi secret agent.
Product Description
United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: During World War II, Pat Bannon's whaler sights a shell-ridden Danish four-rigger in the waters off of Newfoundland. The crew has fled and only Captain Skalder is aboard. Thinking it has been a victim of a German U-boat, Bannon agrees to tow the vessel to a small Newfoundland port, the destination of the whaler's sole passenger, Margaret McLean. During the voyage it becomes apparent that one of the whaler's crew is a Nazi agent. In port, Bannon and Conrad, a crewman who proves loyal to the Allied cause, discover the the vessel they aided is a U-boat supply ship. ...Sealed Cargo (UK)
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is well plotted, good story that never quite lets you relax as you wonder what will happen next! - I saw it years ago and it's lost none of its appeal today and once again, if you just want to relax and be entertained with a film that no longer seems to be shown on the box on a Sunday afternoon, you won't go far wrong in this instance and I will say the transfer from the film to DVD is not bad at all, bearing in mind the age of the film itself.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
A very well made wartime suspense film, with a strong cast and a well plotted story. Gets your interest and keeps it. A good DVD transfer, apart from one short sequence (where it appears some footage may be missing).
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
One of those now completely forgotten commercial pictures the studios used to regularly churn out, 1952's Sealed Cargo is a well-crafted and thoroughly entertaining WW2 mystery with surprisingly lavish production values for RKO that sees Dana Andrews' fishing boat skipper finding himself with an unexpected passenger in the form of Carla Balenda and a Nazi spy on board who may be one of the new Danish crew members (Philip Dorn and Eric Feldary) the wartime manpower shortage has forced him to take on. As if a smashed radio and mysterious signals - both from unseen submarines signalling to each other in the fog by machine gun fire and a light from below his own decks - weren't enough to contend with, he soon stumbles across an abandoned Danish schooner. Well, not quite abandoned. Along with its cargo of rum and a single dead body, there's the dazed captain Claude Rains, who also may not be all that he seems. Towing it to the nearest isolated Newfoundland harbour against Rains' wishes, Andrews can't help shaking the suspicion that he's actually doing exactly what the circling wolf pack of German U-Boats want him to do...
Based on a Saturday Evening Post serial and playing at times like a cross between a nautical film noir and a WW2 propaganda film, Alfred L. Werker's film may not add up to much, but it's surprisingly well done: atmospherically photographed by George E. Diskant with a decent supporting cast (Onslow Stevens, Skip Homier, Arthur Shields, Whit Bissell) and a screenplay co-written by future creator of Maverick, The Rockford Files and The Fugitive Roy Huggins. The sealed cargo area itself seems unfeasibly large for a ship that doesn't ride that low in the water and credibility gets increasingly short shrift once the film deals its big reveal at the halfway point, but while it may not be `the most daring adventure the screen has ever known' promised by the wonderfully over-the-top but spoiler-heavy trailer included on the DVD, it is a satisfying 89 minutes of high quality hokum. Odeon's UK DVD offers an acceptable print, though at times it looks like a standards conversion from NTSC and there is one very noticeable tramline in one sequence, with the trailer the only extra.
Based on a Saturday Evening Post serial and playing at times like a cross between a nautical film noir and a WW2 propaganda film, Alfred L. Werker's film may not add up to much, but it's surprisingly well done: atmospherically photographed by George E. Diskant with a decent supporting cast (Onslow Stevens, Skip Homier, Arthur Shields, Whit Bissell) and a screenplay co-written by future creator of Maverick, The Rockford Files and The Fugitive Roy Huggins. The sealed cargo area itself seems unfeasibly large for a ship that doesn't ride that low in the water and credibility gets increasingly short shrift once the film deals its big reveal at the halfway point, but while it may not be `the most daring adventure the screen has ever known' promised by the wonderfully over-the-top but spoiler-heavy trailer included on the DVD, it is a satisfying 89 minutes of high quality hokum. Odeon's UK DVD offers an acceptable print, though at times it looks like a standards conversion from NTSC and there is one very noticeable tramline in one sequence, with the trailer the only extra.
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
