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A man trying to get back to the USA finds himself onboard a ship full of foreign agents plotting the destruction of the Panama Canal! Is there really an atomic bomb being smuggled in the hold of the ship? Directed by Paul Guilfoyle and starring the likes of Barton MacLane, Leif Erickson, and Virginia Grey, Captain Scarface will make you think twice about your next cruise...
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Captain Scarface (1953)
72 min
A group of communist spies plan to blow up an essential commercial artery, the Panama Canal. To this end, they have kidnapped a nuclear scientist and are traveling by steamship to the coast of South America. Luckily for western civilization, the hard-nosed ship's captain, played by Barton MacLane, has other ideas.