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Trade Winds is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tay Garnett released in USA on 28 december 1938 with Fredric March

Trade Winds (1938)

Trade Winds
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Released in USA 28 december 1938
Length 1h33
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Romance
Rating61% 3.098923.098923.098923.098923.09892

Trade Winds is a 1938 comedy film distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Tay Garnett, and starred Fredric March and Joan Bennett. The screenplay was written by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell and Frank R. Adams, based on story by Tay Garnett.

Synopsis

Former police detective Sam Wye is on the trail of socialite Kay Kerrigan who is accused of fatally shooting millionaire cad Thomas Bruhme. Kay has taken a ship to the South Seas followed by Sam, Sam's secretary Jean Livingstone as well as police detectives Ben "Homer" Blodgett and George Faulkner. Along the way, through various adventures, Sam and Kay fall in love, as do Homer and Jean. Sam eventually determines that the actual killer was a jealous husband whose wife was having an affair with Bruhme. Kay is thus cleared and free to marry Sam.

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