Queer Cargo Explained

Queer Cargo
Director:	Harold D. Schuster
Producer:	Walter C. Mycroft
Based On:	the play Queer Cargo by Noel Langley
Cinematography:	Otto Kanturek
Studio:	Associated British Picture Corporation
Distributor:	Associated British Film Distributors
Runtime:	61 minutes
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Budget:	£33,923^[1]

Queer Cargo is a 1938 British drama film directed by Harold D. Schuster and starring John Lodge, Judy Kelly and Kenneth Kent.^[2] It was made at Elstree Studios.^[3] It was based on a play of the same title by Noel Langley.

Cast

• John Lodge as Capt. Harley
• Judy Kelly as Ann Warren
• Kenneth Kent as Vibart
• Bertha Belmore as Henrietta Travers
• Louis Borel as Benson
• Wylie Watson as Rev. James Travers
• Geoffrey Toone as Lt. Stocken
• Jerry Verno as Slops
• Frank Pettingell as Dan
• Frank Cochran as Ho Tang

Citations

1. ‘The highest salary ever paid to a human being’: Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England . Chapman. Llewella. Edinburgh University Press. Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10. 19. 4. 470-494 at 480.
2. Chibnall & McFarlane p. 10
3. Wood p. 99

General bibliography

• Chibnall, Steve & McFarlane, Brian. The British 'B' Film. Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986.