World for Ransom

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.

Cast

Dan Duryea

as Mike Callahan / Corrigan

Gene Lockhart

as Alexis Pederas

Patric Knowles

as Julian March

Reginald Denny

as Major Ian Bone

Nigel Bruce

as Governor Sir Charles Coutts

Marian Carr

as Frennessey March

Arthur Shields

as Sean O'Connor

Douglass Dumbrille

as Insp. McCollum

Carmen D'Antonio

as Dancer

Keye Luke

as Wong

Reviews

CinemaSerf

When acclaimed nuclear physicist "O'Connor" (Arthur Shields) is kidnapped in Singapore it falls to opportunist investigator "Callahan" (Dan Duryea) to try to find him before an auction ensues that will see the poor man fought over by the West and those nasty commies behind the iron curtain. Meantime...

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