The Gun Runners (1958)

Director
Don Siegel

Main cast
Audie Murphy; Eddie Albert; Patricia Owens; Richard Jaeckel; Paul Birch

Genres
Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime

Description
Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.


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