vonhangman — 18 years ago(March 24, 2008 06:30 PM)

I really enjoyed watching "Strange Cargo" but after seeing it I was amazed to discover that the film was released in 1940.
For a start, it is a pre-code sort of film, in terms of being relatively frank about the physical relationship between Julie (Joan Crawford) and her admirers.
But also, and more-so, the way it was shot, and edited, and scored and for that matter acted all made it seem like a film from the very start of the post-silent era. Without being told you would
never
have imagined it was a film that Clark Gable made
after
"Gone With the Wind."
It was incredible, for me anyway, that the same Production/Direction team of Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Frank Borzage which made "Three Comrades" and "The Shining Hour" could have followed up on these films with something so anomolous.