An American working in the jungles of Honduras gets word he's inherited 200 grand. The tricky part is getting back to Texas to claim it in 1944's Dangerous Passage. This short b-movie is a pretty inventive specimen.
Robert Lowery is pretty charming as Joe, the American in the big panama hat. He meets the equally charming Phyllis Brooks as down on her luck night club employee Nita Paxton, looking to finally purchase a ticket back to the states. She and Joe end up on the same crummy little passenger ship called the Merman after Joe finds himself running from a manslaughter rap.
The filmmakers seem to have been more charmed by Charles Ant as the sleazy go-between who breaks the news to Joe about the 200,000. He makes a coy comment on how valuable Joe's identification papers are and he spends the rest of the movie trying to get his hands on them. But there's another crooked plot afoot as the captain and first mate of the Merman are planning to scuttle the ship and claim the insurance.
The final act gets a bit silly but overall the film's a better than average appetiser or chaser for an A-picture.
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