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The Scavengers is a film of genre Drama directed by John Cromwell released in USA on 1 october 1959 with Vince Edwards
The Scavengers (1959)
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Add to a movie listThe Scavengers is a 1959 Filipino crime film that was directed by John Cromwell. Shot on location in the Crown Colony of Hong Kong, it was the first film produced by former US Navy fighter pilot and Philippine resident Kane W. Lynn and Eddie Romero. It was released as a double feature in the US with Terror Is a Man by Hal Roach's Valiant Pictures.
It was rereleased in 1963 as City of Sin by Lynn's new company Hemisphere Picures.
Synopsis
Former Korean War pilot Stuart Allison has been searching the Orient for his wife who deserted him six years ago. Now running a smuggling operation in Hong Kong, he sights his wife Marian boarding a ferry to Macau. Allison is pursued by both the Royal Hong Kong Police and a mystery man named O'Hara who inform him that his wife is now a cocaine addict and involved in smuggling stolen bonds embezzled by a missing former Nationalist Chinese general.Actors
Vince Edwards
(Stuart Allison)
Carol Ohmart
(Marion Allison)
Richard Loo
(...)
Efren Reyes
(Puan)
Vic Díaz
(Casimir O'Hara)
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