Strange Cargo « Movie from 1940

Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ian Hunter, and Peter Lorre star in the controversial, provocative drama of a group of prison-island fugitives who are changed forever by a prisoner who thinks he is Jesus.

When eight prisoners escape from a New Guinea penal colony, they are picked up by a sloop commandeered by another escapee named Verne and his loose-moraled girlfriend, Julie.

Among the fugitives i...