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Macao (film)
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| Directed by | Josef von Sternberg Nicholas Ray |
| Produced by | Howard Hughes (uncredited) Samuel Bischoff Alex Gottlieb |
| Written by | Robert Creighton Williams (story) Stanley Rubin Bernard C. Schoenfeld Robert Mitchum (uncredited) |
| Starring | Robert Mitchum Jane Russell |
| Music by | Anthony Collins Jule Styne |
| Cinematography | Harry J. Wild |
| Editing by | Samuel E. Beetley Robert Golden |
| Distributed by | RKO |
| Release date(s) | April 30, 1952 |
| Running time | 81 min. |
| Language | English |
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Macao is a black-and-white 1952 film noir adventure film. Only stock footage of the film was shot on location in Hong Kong and Macau. Producer Howard Hughes fired director Josef von Sternberg while the film was being shot and then hired director Nicholas Ray to finish it. When many of Von Sternberg's scenes made no sense dramatically, Ray asked Mitchum to write several bridging scenes. Noted cinematographer Harry J. Wild worked on the film. Filming was completed in 1950 but the film was not released until 1952.
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Three strangers arrive at the port town of Macao. Nick (Mitchum) is a world-traveling, cynical-but-honest everyman. Julie (Russell) is an equally cynical sultry night club singer. They arrive in Macao on the same boat as Lawrence Trumbel (Bendix), a traveling salesman who deals in both silk stockings and contraband.
At the center of the plot is a jewel-smuggling casino owner and his neglected croupier girl friend. The "international police" want to get him beyond the safety of Macao's three-mile limit where they can nab him, and a New York police detective goes undercover in an attempt to force his hand. The casino owner mistakes Nick for the police officer.
- Robert Mitchum as Nick Cochran
- Jane Russell as Julie Benson
- William Bendix as Lawrence C. Trumble
- Thomas Gomez as Lt. Sebastian
- Gloria Grahame as Margie
- Brad Dexter as Vincent Halloran
- Macao at the Internet Movie Database
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