White Cargo

White Cargo

"White Cargo" (1942) is a film starring Hedy Lamarr and Walter Pidgeon and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Set in 1910, it is based on the 1923 London and Broadway hit play by Leon Gordon, which was in turn adapted from the novel "Hell's Playground" by Ida Vera Simonton. The play had already been made into a British part-talkie with Maurice Evans in 1929.

The story centers around two white colonizers who are both interested in Tondelayo, a half Egyptian, half Arab native. The role became one of Hedy Lamarr's most famous.

The 1942 film, unlike the play, begins in what was then the present day, and uses a flashback technique.

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