Blood Alley
1955 film directed by William A. Wellman
Blood Alley is a 1955 American seafaring Cold War adventure film produced by John Wayne, directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Wayne and Lauren Bacall. The film was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and shot in CinemaScope and Warnercolor. The film depicts a voyage from Chiku Shan, a village on the Communist Chinese coast, all the way to Hong Kong via the Formosa Strait.
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Captain Tom Wilder, an American Merchant Mariner, is taken prisoner after Chinese Communists seize his ship. After two years in prison, unknown accomplices help Wilder escape using bribery and disguising him as a Soviet army officer.
Wilder is transported to Chiku Shan village. The village leader, Mr. Tso, says Wilder has been recruited to transport nearly 200 residents out of Red China to the free British port of Hong Kong. Wilder is to pilot a stolen wood burning, flat-bottomed, 19th-Century stern-wheel riverboat.
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