World for Ransom

World for Ransom

Infobox Film | name =World for Ransom


caption =World for Ransom movie poster
director = Robert Aldrich (uncredited)
producer = Bernard Tabakin
Robert Aldrich
writer =Lindsay Hardy
starring =Dan Duryea
Gene Lockhart
music = Frank De Vol
cinematography = Joseph Biroc
editing =
distributor = Allied Artists Pictures Corporation
released = January 31, 1954 (U.S. release)
runtime = 82 min.
language = English
country = USA
budget = $90,000 (estimate)
imdb_id = 0047681

"World for Ransom" is a 1954 film directed by Robert Aldrich, who was uncredited for his work. Many of the actors and sets used in the film were from the Dan Duryea television show "China Smith". Aldrich and cinematographer Joseph Biroc also worked on the series.

Plot

Mike Callahan, played by Dan Duryea, is an Irish emigré and war veteran working in Singapore as a private detective. He takes on a case from a former flame, now a nightclub singer. She thinks her husband Julian March (Patric Knowles) is involved in criminal activities and asks him to help out. Callahan learns that a man named Alexis Pederas (Gene Lockhart) has involved Julian in a plot to kidnap a prominent nuclear scientist Sean O'Connor and hold him for ransom to the highest bidder. O'Connor is one of the only men in the world that knows how to detonate the H-Bomb.

The film was shot in 10 days, on a budget of $90,000, with director Aldrich halting production to shoot TV commercials in order to raise money for the film's post-production. [http://online.tvguide.com/movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=26867]

The film is similar in story to another film noir with a nuclear theme by Aldrich, "Kiss Me Deadly", the difference being that Callahan is in it to try to get an old girlfriend back while Mike Hammer in "Kiss Me Deadly" was in it for the money.

Featured cast

* Dan Duryea as Mike Callahan aka Corrigan
* Gene Lockhart as Alexis Pederas
* Patric Knowles as Julian March
* Reginald Denny as Major Ian Bone
* Nigel Bruce as Governor Sir Charles Coutts

External links

*imdb title|0047681


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