Charles Laughton plays a dope-dealing killer skipper. What more do you need?
A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking.
Acting
Laughton's Grossman: sweaty, shifty, absolutely magnetic slime.
Direction
Godfrey squeezes maximum dread from minimal Thames-side sets.
Director
Peter Godfrey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Britain's brief 'quota quickie' era—films rushed out to satisfy domestic content laws, often with borrowed Hollywood stars like Laughton slumming for a payday.
Godfrey later directed Laughton again in The Suspect (1944), suggesting their Grossman collaboration left enough creative goodwill to survive a decade.
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