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Lovers and Luggers is a film of genre Adventure directed by Ken G. Hall released in USA on 21 february 1940 with Ann Richards
Lovers and Luggers (1938)
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Add to a movie listLovers and Luggers is a 1937 Australian film directed by Ken G. Hall. It is an adventure melodrama about a pianist (Lloyd Hughes) who goes to Thursday Island to retrieve a valuable pearl.
It was retitled Vengeance of the Deep in the USA and United Kingdom.
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In London, concert pianist Daubenny Carshott is feeling dissatisfied with his life and wanting a masculine adventure; he also desires the beautiful Stella Raff. Stella agrees to marry him if he brings back a large pearl with his own hands from Thursday Island. Daubenny notes a painting in Stella's apartment from "Craig Henderson" but when asked Stella is evasive about the artist.Actors
Ann Richards
(Lorna Quidley (as Shirley Ann Richards))
Lloyd Hughes
(Daubeney Carshott)
James Raglan
(Bill Craig, alias Craig Henderson)
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