Movie |
Smuggling (contraband) | Film Noir
Disclaimer: All content and media belong to original content streaming platforms/owners like Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, Amazon Prime Videos, JioCinema, SonyLIV etc. 91mobiles entertainment does not claim any rights to the content and only aggregate the content along with the service providers links.
The final scenes were shot at the Red Car trolley graveyard, on Terminal Island, near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. They were in the process of being recycled by National Metal and Steel. The company also scrapped many decommissioned U.S. Navy ships there after WWII and also steam locomotives as they were being replaced by diesel-electric ones. The scrapyard closed at the end of 1985.
The versatile character actor Stanley Adams was just a decade away from his best remembered role as the likable but crafty Cyrano Jones in Star Trek (1966)'s Star Trek: The Trouble with Tribbles (1967). His character was a bit of a smuggler, too, though he likened it to being a traveling purveyor of unusual items.
When the ambulance is rushing to pick up the injured boy, it goes past the Hi Ho Motel. The motel was located on Ventura Boulevard in an area that was mostly commercial and a bit rundown. In the early 1980s, the city used its "red light abatement" law to close down the motel, and it was demolished by its owner in 1985 to make way for a shopping center.
The small recorder Jordan plays is a Protona Minifon P-55 made in West Germany starting in 1955. It recorded on a small reel-to-reel wire system. It was used by many intelligence services around the world, including the CIA.
Feature film directorial debut of actor William J. Hole Jr..
"[first lines] Narrator: Three days ago, at exactly 0600 - because that is really not the time - on February 5 - because that is really not the date - this freighter, which shall be nameless, sailed from a certain Far Eastern port. Its destination: The Port of Los Angeles, Wilmington, California. This is fact."
