A tale of treachery and deception on the high seas...
After a whirlwind courtship, beautiful heiress Ruth Stanton (Jeanne Crain)
recklessly marries handsome charmer John Bowman (Carl Betz).
For their honeymoon, the couple boards an ocean liner sailing from
New York. After carrying his bride across the threshold of their cabin,
John tells Ruth he has to deposit money at the pursuer's office
and that he will meet her afterwards in the ship's bar.
As the minutes turn to hours, John is a no-show. Ruth is
worried that something must have happened to him and begins
to search for her missing husband. No one in the pursuer's office
remembers seeing him however, while members of the ship's
crew tell Ruth they did not see John board with her.
Ruth, who has been under emotional stress due to the death of her father,
begins to doubt her own sanity after returning to the cabin where she
and John were staying to find herself locked out of the room. According
to the attending steward she meets in the hallway, the room was
never booked by the couple. Ruth demands to be let into the cabin
only to find it empty. She later finds her luggage in another room.
. Since she and John were married only the day before they sailed,
Ruth is not wearing a wedding ring and her luggage still bears
tags with her maiden name. These unusual circumstances raise
the concern of the ship's captain and other crew members, who
are starting to believe that Ruth may be mentally unstable and
that her missing husband is a figment of her imagination.
The only person to believe that she is not delusional is the
ship's kindly physician, Dr. Paul Manning, (Michael Rennie).
Determined to find out what is going on, he begins to realize
that Ruth is telling the truth, and that her life is in serious danger.
Based on the successful 1940's radio play, "Cabin B-13" by American
writer John Dickson Carr, the suspenseful, "Dangerous Crossing"
will keep you guessing till the very end!
(1953)
DK Classics III
(May 20, 2023)
