Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in common.
Acting
Greenstreet's sermon on the afterlife, pure velvet thunder
Production
Fog-drenched ship sets built from A Night to Remember leftovers
Writing
Somerfield's stage adaptation crackles with metaphysical wit
Director
Edward A. Blatt
John Garfield
Tom Prior
Paul Henreid
Henry Bergner
Sydney Greenstreet
Reverend Tim Thompson
Eleanor Parker
Ann Bergner
Edmund Gwenn
Scrubby
George Tobias
Pete Musick
George Coulouris
Mr. Lingley
Faye Emerson
Maxine Russell
Sara Allgood
Mrs. Midget
Dennis King
Reverend William Duke
Isobel Elsom
Genevieve Cliveden-Banks
Gilbert Emery
Benjamin Cliveden-Banks
Lester Matthews
Steamship Dispatcher (uncredited)
Patrick O'Moore
Steamship Clerk (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is a stealth remake of 1930's Outward Bound, itself based on Sutton Vane's 1923 play—Hollywood loved recycling purgatory.
Released June 1944, the film ghost-whispered to audiences who'd lost family in the war; the bomber crew's inclusion was no accident.
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