Trade Winds (film)
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| Directed by | Tay Garnett |
| Produced by | Tay Garrett Walter Wanger (executive) |
| Screenplay by | Dorothy Parker Alan Campbell Frank R. Adams |
| Story by | original story Tay Garnett |
| Starring | Fredric March Joan Bennett |
| Music by | Musical director Alfred Newman |
| Cinematography | Rudolph Mate, A.S.C. Foreign exterior photography James B. Shackelford, A.S.C. |
| Edited by | Otho Lovering Dorothy Spencer |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $738,733[1] |
| Box office | $964,404[1] |
Trade Winds is a 1938 comedy film distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Tay Garnett, and starred Fredric March and Joan Bennett. The screenplay was written by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell and Frank R. Adams, based on story by Tay Garnett.
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Plot
Former police detective Sam Wye is on the trail of socialite Kay Kerrigan who is accused of fatally shooting millionaire cad Thomas Bruhme. Kay has taken a ship to the South Seas followed by Sam, Sam's secretary Jean Livingstone as well as police detectives Ben "Homer" Blodgett and George Faulkner. Along the way, through various adventures, Sam and Kay fall in love, as do Homer and Jean. Sam eventually determines that the actual killer was a jealous husband whose wife was having an affair with Bruhme. Kay is thus cleared and free to marry Sam.
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Release
The film earned a profit of $71,129.[1]
References
External links
- Trade Winds at the TCM Movie Database
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Trade Winds at IMDb
- Trade Winds at Allmovie
- Still Photos from 'Trade Winds' by Ned Scott
Streaming audio
- Trade Winds on Lux Radio Theater: March 4, 1940
- Trade Winds on the Screen Directors Playhouse: May 29, 1949
- Pages with broken file links
- 1938 films
- English-language films
- 1930s comedy films
- American films
- American comedy thriller films
- Black-and-white films
- Comedy mystery films
- Detective films
- Film scores by Alfred Newman
- Films directed by Tay Garnett
- Films set in San Francisco, California
- Screenplays by Dorothy Parker
- United Artists films
- Films produced by Walter Wanger
