Soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, cynical former newspaper correspondent John Royer devises a scheme with his old editor and government agents to return to the Far East and smuggle out a vast amount of rubber for the war effort. Demanding the freedom and company of his ex-friend, Carnahan, whom he betrayed in an exposé years earlier, Royer sails off into the hands of the Japanese with a motley crew, gold, and the promise of covert government aid.

Spencer Tracy
as Carnaghan

James Stewart
as John Royer

Valentina Cortese
as Luana

Sydney Greenstreet
as The Dutchman

John Hodiak
as Kellar

Lionel Barrymore
as John Manchester

Gilbert Roland
as Romano

Roland Winters
as Bruno Gruber

Richard Loo
as Colonel Genichi Tomura

Ian MacDonald
as Carlos Tassuma