• 1954
  • Approved
  • 1h 22m
World for Ransom

Summary In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder. View more details

  • 1954
  • Approved
  • 1h 22m

World for Ransom

Directed : Robert Aldrich

Written : Hugo Butler Lindsay Hardy

Stars : Dan Duryea Patric Knowles Reginald Denny Gene Lockhart

All cast & crew

5.8

Details

Genres : Thriller Crime Drama Film-Noir

Release date : Jan 30, 1954

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English Cantonese

Filming locations : Motion Picture Center Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Plaza Productions

Summary In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder. View more details

Details

Genres : Thriller Crime Drama Film-Noir

Release date : Jan 30, 1954

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English Cantonese

Filming locations : Motion Picture Center Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Plaza Productions

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World for Ransom (1954) Dan Duryea and Marian Carr in World for Ransom (1954) Dan Duryea and Marian Carr in World for Ransom (1954) Dan Duryea and Marian Carr in World for Ransom (1954) Nigel Bruce in World for Ransom (1954) Dan Duryea and Marian Carr in World for Ransom (1954) Dan Duryea in World for Ransom (1954) Gene Lockhart in World for Ransom (1954) Dan Duryea and Douglass Dumbrille in World for Ransom (1954) Patric Knowles in World for Ransom (1954) Dan Duryea and Marian Carr in World for Ransom (1954) Patric Knowles and Gene Lockhart in World for Ransom (1954) Patric Knowles in World for Ransom (1954)

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