A Lady Without Passport Page #6

Synopsis: There is a problem with foreign nationals using Cuba as a convenient jumping off point for illegal entry into the United States. So U.S. Immigration Service Agent Peter Karczag (John Hodiak) is sent to Havana posing as a Hungarian frustrated with the legal immigration process and open to an alternative. By this means he uncovers the human smuggling ring run by Palinov (George Macready). He also meets concentration-camp refugee Marianne Lorress (Hedy Lamarr), a Viennese working in a nightclub and one who has paid to be smuggled into the United States. When Karczag falls in love with her, he becomes conflicted, not wanting her to be among those he plans to have captured in his operation. So he tries to persuade her to stay in Cuba instead of being secretly flown to the United States. Will he succeed? What if his cover is blown?
Director(s): Joseph H. Lewis
Production: MGM
 
IMDB:
6.2
APPROVED
Year:
1950
74 min
206 Views


Maybe he'll get away.

Maybe we'll get him

next year.

That's a chance

we got to take.

No.

Why,

those poor devils

won't last a day

in this country

unless we find them.

That's more important than palinov.

If i've got a choice

between preventing

4 people from being chewed

up, bitten by snakes,

or dying of exposure

or picking up a couple of smugglers,

well, it's ok with me if they get away.

Mr. Westlake.

You're right.

I've got no argument,

but one of the people

on that raft is an alien.

I want to go after her,

not palinov.

Look. I'm not gonna

send you downriver

after two killers

alone,

even if

the two of us

could find those

characters in there.

The girl's in a spot,

and i put her there.

Watch yourself, pete.

Oh!

Hung up

on a root.

The raft's gone.

Let's get them

out of here.

Tourniquet

my leg.

Above the knee.

You two better

go ahead.

There's no use of us all getting caught.

You'll find the key on the

boat near the fuel tank.

We can't

leave him here.

I intend to be 12 miles

at sea by daybreak.

We've left people

here before,

he and i.

He's right.

Go ahead.

Well, try

and get up.

I'm sorry, lady.

I better be quiet until they pick me up.

Come!

We can't help.

Wait.

You! There

in the boat!

Who are you?

I've been waiting

for you, palinov.

Joseph.

Stay where you are.

This is the end

of the line.

I'm prepared to make a deal.

You're in no position

to make a deal.

You're wrong.

We both have something the other wants.

If you try to keep me here,

you'll only take

one of us alive.

It won't be

the one you want.

What do you

want me to do?

Start the motor

of that boat.

The key's next

to the fuel tank.

Find it. Quickly.

Get out

on the pier.

Cast off astern.

Now get to the far end

of the pier.

We're coming out.

Throw your gun

in the water.

No.

Hurry,

or i'll shoot.

Keep your gun.

He'll kill you.

Wait, marianne!

Untie the bow.

Hold the rope

till we get on-board.

Miss lorress,

you may go with me

or stay,

as you wish.

If you stay, this man will arrest you.

You'll face jail,

deportation.

If we return

to cuba,

nothing will

happen to you.

Next time, we'll get through.

Would you

arrest me, joseph?

I've got to, marianne.

I'll stay.

Cast off.

Look out,

marianne!

Are you all right?

He isn't going as far as he thinks he is

with no gas.

He'll be caught as soon as it's clear,

and with his gift

for languages,

my boss will want

to hear him talk.

This boss

- he'll want to hear me talk, too.

Yes, and i'll do

some talking.

Millions of people

right now

are pretty happy to be

right where they are,

but when someone wants

to go somewhere else

so badly that they'll risk their lives,

then it's time

for me to help them,

not turn them away.

I've learned

something, marianne.

I'm glad, joseph.

Not joseph-karczag.

Pete karczag.

Karczag?

Pete karczag.

A real american name.

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