Singapore

1947

Action / Adventure / Crime / Film-Noir / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 14% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 14%
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 911 911

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Plot summary

After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.

Director

John Brahm Photo
John Brahm

Top cast

Roland Culver Photo
Roland Culver as Michael Van Leyden
Philip Ahn Photo
Philip Ahn as Jimmy - Bartender
Ava Gardner Photo
Ava Gardner as Linda Grahame / Ann Van Leyden
Richard Haydn Photo
Richard Haydn as Deputy Commissioner Hewitt
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730.02 MB
990*720
English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 19 min
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1.32 GB
1484*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 19 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jjnxn-1 7 / 10

Ava climbing up the ladder of stardom

Fred's back from the service looking to retrieve the pearls he was smuggling before Singapore was invaded and is haunted by the memory of what he thinks is his lost love Ava. One day she reappears but she doesn't remember him. What's the answer to the mystery?Studio bound adventure is entertaining enough but serves more as a study in star building. This was Ava Gardner's last film before she moved into the top tier of MGM stars with her next film, One Touch of Venus. Having scored heavily in two supporting roles for her home studio, The Killers & The Hucksters, they loaned her to Universal for the female lead in this alongside the established Fred MacMurray to test her lead appeal with minimal risk. She seems a bit cautious at times but radiates star quality every second she's on screen. Considering the magnitude of the stars in the leads this is curiously obscure but if you enjoyed Gilda or similar fare it's worth the time.
Reviewed by jxm4687 5 / 10

Contrived, but holds your interest

Director John Brahm manages to hold this poor-man's "Casablanca" together. The picture moves at a good clip and Brahm makes the studio-set Singapore visually interesting. There's help too from stars Fred MacMurray and Ava Gardner as lovers whose lives are complicated by World War II and Gardner's amnesia when MacMurray, who thought her dead, finds her again in postwar Singapore, married to a wealthy planter. MacMurray and Gardner are really a goofy romantic team, but MacMurray has his appealing casual charm, and Gardner's vague, unfocused acting works well in some of her amnesiac scenes (plus she was at her most beautiful in the late 1940's). Supporting turns by pros like Richard Haydn and Spring Byington are also a plus. Overall, contrived and derivative, but it looks like a classic compared to the depressing Errol Flynn 1957 remake, "Istanbul."
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