Dangerous Crossing (1953)

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Dangerous Crossing (1953) – J. M. Newman

Jeanne Crain is a newlywed having met her new husband just one month earlier and tying the knot in one of those roadside wedding chapels, now she is onboard a cruise ship ready for departure.  Her husband just has to leave some money with the purser as the ship is departing.  She awaits his return in the bar.  And he doesn’t come back.  When she seeks help from the ship’s steward, he informs her that no such husband exists on the passenger register and that she boarded alone and her luggage arrived early and was taken to her cabin – not the cabin she originally arrived to with her husband.  He takes her to the ship’s doctor, played by Michael Rennie, and the rest of this brief film (75 minutes) involves Crain trying to convince everyone that she is not crazy and to find her husband.  Yes, it’s film noir but a minor entry in the canon; the plot resolves too quickly and too patly, methinks, and the premise only takes us so far before it gets old…