White Cargo

White Cargo
1942 US theatrical poster
Directed by	Richard Thorpe
Screenplay by	Leon Gordon
Based on	White Cargo 1923 play by Leon Gordon
Produced by	Victor Saville
Starring	Hedy Lamarr Walter Pidgeon
Cinematography	Harry Stradling Sr.
Edited by	Fredrick Y. Smith
Music by	Bronislau Kaper
Production company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	December 12, 1942 (1942-12-12)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$570,000[1]
Box office	$2,663,000[1]

White Cargo is a 1942 American drama film starring Hedy Lamarr and Walter Pidgeon, and directed by Richard Thorpe. Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it is based on the 1923 London and Broadway hit play by Leon Gordon, which was in turn adapted from the 1912 novel Hell's Playground by Ida Vera Simonton. The play had already been made into a British part-talkie, also titled White Cargo, with Maurice Evans in 1930. The 1942 film, unlike the play, begins in what was then the present-day, before unfolding in flashback.