Corsair

A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.

Cast

Chester Morris

as John Hawks

Thelma Todd

as Alison Corning

Fred Kohler

as Big John

Ned Sparks

as Slim

Emmett Corrigan

as Stephen Corning

William Austin

as Richard Bentinck

Frank McHugh

as 'Chub' Hopping

Frank Rice

as Fish Face

Mayo Methot

as Sophie

Gay Seabrook

as Susie Grenoble

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Aside from a rather silly underlying premiss, this makes for quite an entraining little thriller. Handsome, but wooden, Chester Morris is "John", a football-star graduate who arrives on Wall St. with a bit of a conscience. That isn't what his unscrupulous boss "Corning" (Emmett Corrigan), nor his ra...

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