"Powder your nose, baby", the craggy-voiced skipper bellows. "We're coming into Hong Kong". Getting there wasn't easy for wily Merchant Marine Capt. Tom Wilder. But it's exciting - and what an action fan might expect from a movie teaming legends John Wayne, Lauren Bacall and director William A. Wellman. Merchant Marine Capt. Tom Wilder braves dangerous waters and pursuing Red Chinese forces while steering a boatload of Chinese refugees and a doctor's daughter Cathy Grainger (Lauren Bacall) along a 300-mile waterway to freedom's shores.
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