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1937 film by Robert Siodmak For the later film, see White Cargo (1958 film).

Cargaison blanche, or Le Chemin de Rio

Directed by	Robert Siodmak
Written by	Henri Jeanson Herbert Juttke Jean Masson
Produced by	Seymour Nebenzal
Starring	Käthe von Nagy Jean-Pierre Aumont Jules Berry Suzy Prim
Cinematography	René Gaveau
Edited by	Marguerite Beaugé Marguerite Renoir
Music by	Paul Dessau
Production company	Production Nero Film
Distributed by	Sfera Film
Release date	4 February 1937 (1937-02-04)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Cargaison blanche or Le Chemin de Rio (English literal translation: White Cargo or The Road To Rio) is a 1937 French crime film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Käthe von Nagy, Jules Berry and Suzy Prim. in which two journalists go on the trail of gangsters who are kidnapping women to sell in South America. The film was made by Nero Film, with sets designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. It was remade in 1958 directed by Georges Lacombe.

It was released in the United States in 1950 by Distinguished Films Inc. as French White Cargo, and reissued there in 1952 by Joseph Brenner as Woman Racket. Some sources claim it may also have been known in the USA as Traffic in Souls.

Plot summary

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Main cast

Jean-Pierre Aumont as Henri Voisin
Käthe von Nagy as Marion Baker
Jules Berry as Moreno
Suzy Prim as Estella
Marcel Dalio as Pedro Férez
Charles Granval as Blanco
Gisèle Préville as Béatrice
Marcelle Praince as Juana, the Madame
Gaston Modot as Álvarez, her agent
Mady Berry as Madame Blanco
Georges Jamin as Henchman Manuel
Abel Jacquin as Henchman Constantin
Max Maxudian as Le commandant
Sylvia Bataille as Yvette Martin
Annie France as Une girl

References

Greco p.190

Bibliography

Greco, Joseph. The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood, 1941-1951. Universal-Publishers, 1999.

External links

v t e Films directed by Robert Siodmak
Europe 1930–1939	People on Sunday (1930) Farewell (1930) Inquest (1931) About an Inquest (1931, MLV) The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931) Storms of Passion (1932) Quick (1932) The Burning Secret (1933) The Weaker Sex (1933) The Crisis is Over (1934) La Vie parisienne (1936) Parisian Life (1936) The Great Refrain (1936) Compliments of Mister Flow (1936) White Cargo (1937) Mollenard (1938) The Corsican Brothers (1939) Personal Column (1939)
Hollywood 1941–1951	West Point Widow (1941) Fly-by-Night (1942) The Night Before the Divorce (1942) My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942) Someone to Remember (1943) Son of Dracula (1943) Phantom Lady (1944) Cobra Woman (1944) Christmas Holiday (1944) The Suspect (1944) The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) The Spiral Staircase (1946) The Killers (1946) The Dark Mirror (1946) Time Out of Mind (1947) Cry of the City (1948) Criss Cross (1949) The Great Sinner (1949) The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) Deported (1950) The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
Europe 1952–1969	The Crimson Pirate (1952) Flesh and the Woman (1954) Die Ratten (1955) My Father, the Actor (1956) The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) Dorothea Angermann (1959) Magnificent Sinner (1959) The Rough and the Smooth (1959) My Schoolfriend (1960) The Nina B. Affair (1961) Escape from East Berlin (1962) The Shoot (1964) The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965) The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965) Custer of the West (1967) Kampf um Rom (1968)

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