abstract:Strange Cargo (1940) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable in a story about a group of fugitive prisoners from a French penal colony. The screenplay by Lawrence Hazard was based upon the 1936 novel, Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep, by Richard Sale.
But before the cargo ship'sstrangeshipping route was explained, there were many conjectures about "China covetingSingapore's military secrets in the advancedarmored vehicles".
Sooner or later, the clouds carrying them will open and drop their strangecargo - resulting in a hail of fish, frogs or whatever the winds happened to pick up.