To the Ends of the Earth (1948) DVD-R

Starring Dick Powell, Signe Hasso, Harry J. Anslinger, Maylia, Ludwig Donath
Directed by Robert Stevenson

Print: black/white
Runtime: 109 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

Based on the files of the United States Department of Treasury. Commissioner Michael
Barrows is an American Government Agent. On board a Coast Gaurd boat off the California
coast he chases a ship. The Captain of the ship, the Kira Maru, panics and ruthlessly sends
100 Chinese slaves to a watery death. Barrows recovers a live preserver that tells him the
ship is out of Shanghai. He travels there to track down the ship's captain and discovers that
these deaths point to a huge drug smuggling operation. In Shanghai, while searching for the
captain of the Kira Maru, he becomes suspicious of a women, Ann Grant, believing she's
Jean Hawks the narcotics ringleader. He follows the narcotics trail "to the ends of the
Earth" taking him from Shanghai to Cairo, Beirut and Havana to stop the drugs and the jean
Hawks ring at the US border.