A group of prisoners on the lam from Devil’s Island—including Clark Gable, as a hardened thief, and a cabaret singer (Joan Crawford) escaping a different kind of prison—finds themselves joined on their harrowing journey to freedom by a mysterious and taciturn stranger (Ian Hunter). Beset by hardships, they are drawn to a stranger’s soothing spirit in director Frank Borzage’s most overt allegory of Christ.
Production: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. Distribution: Loew's Inc. Directed by Frank Borzage. Based on the novel Not Too Narrow...Not Too Deep by Richard Bernard Sale. Screenwriter: Lawrence Hazard, Lesser Samuels. Cinematographer: Robert Planck. Art Director: Cedric Gibbons. Editor: Robert J. Kern. Music: Franz Waxman. With: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas. 16mm, b/w, 113 min.
