Ferry to Hong Kong

Ferry to Hong Kong is a 1959 British melodramaadventure film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Curd Jrgens, Sylvia Syms, Orson Welles and Jeremy Spenser.

He travels to Macau, but is refused entry for the same reason he was expelled from Hong Kong. He engages the captain in a card game and wins the right to live on board. His charming manner endears him to the crew and to an attractive teacher Liz Ferrers, a regular passenger.The ferry is nearly wrecked in a typhoon, but Conrad wrests command from the cowardly and drunken captain and saves the ship. Drifting out of control near the Chinese coast, they are boarded by pirates, led by ChineseAmerican Johnny Singup. Singup reveals that Hart is a former conman who won the ship in a crooked cardgame. ........

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