| White Cargo | |
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 1942 US theatrical poster | |
| Directed by | Richard Thorpe |
| Screenplay by | Leon Gordon |
| Based on | White Cargo 1923 play by Leon Gordon |
| Produced by | Victor Saville |
| Starring | Hedy Lamarr Walter Pidgeon |
| Cinematography | Harry Stradling Sr. |
| Edited by | Fredrick Y. Smith |
| Music by | Bronislau Kaper |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $570,000[1] |
| Box office | $2,663,000[1] |
White Cargo is a 1942 American drama film starring Hedy Lamarr and Walter Pidgeon, and directed by Richard Thorpe. Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it is based on the 1923 London and Broadway hit play by Leon Gordon, which was in turn adapted from the 1912 novel Hell's Playground by Ida Vera Simonton. The play had already been made into a British part-talkie, also titled White Cargo, with Maurice Evans in 1930. The 1942 film, unlike the play, begins in what was then the present-day, before unfolding in flashback.