World for Ransom

January. 31,1954      NR
Rating:
5.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Dan Duryea as  Mike Callahan / Corrigan
Gene Lockhart as  Alexis Pederas
Patric Knowles as  Julian March
Reginald Denny as  Major Ian Bone
Nigel Bruce as  Governor Sir Charles Coutts
Marian Carr as  Frennessey March
Arthur Shields as  Sean O'Connor
Douglass Dumbrille as  Insp. McCollum
Keye Luke as  Wong
Clarence Lung as  Johnny Chan

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