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• Actors: Spencer Tracy, Ketti Gallian, Ned Sparks, Helen Morgan, Sig Ruman
• Directors: Henry King
• Writers: Dudley Nichols, Jacques Deval, Reginald Berkeley
• Producers: Winfield R. Sheehan
• Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Delta
• DVD Release Date: June 27, 2000
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6305914850
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #179,135 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Marie Galante is kidnapped by a drunken sea captain and left stranded in the Yucatan. While working as a café singer hoping to pay for her ticket home, she meets American Detective Crawbett, Spencer Tracy, who is the only person who believes her abduction story. Includes a documentary Spencer Tracy: On Film, an introduction by Tony Curtis and the original theatrical trailer for Tracy’s Northwest Passage.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The gallant Tracy and the Gallic Galante, December 26, 2008

By	Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Marie Galante (DVD)

MARIE GALANTE is a 1934 movie with interesting connections to the coming World War. This espionage tale is set in Central America and involves citizens of France, Germany, Britain, Japan and the USA. There's also a plot to sink the American fleet as it passes through the Panama Canal-- an eerie foreshadowing of the Dec. '41 Pearl Harbor attack.

Marie (Gallian) is taken against her will to Mexico by an inebriated sea captain. She works her way down the coast seeking return passage to her native France. At the Canal Zone, Marie takes a singing job and meets an American doctor (Tracy) who's researching tropical diseases. She also becomes acquainted with a British diplomat, a German businessman and his Japanese competitor. Marie learns that the doctor is actually a secret agent trying to foil a plot to destroy the Canal and U.S.N. fleet. (Watch for singer Helen Morgan, who's typecast as a drunken barroom chanteuse.)


ALPHA VIDEO is a provider of vintage movies, serials and TV programs, many of which aren't available elsewhere. Their prices are fair, but so is transfer quality of some of their offerings. None have undergone restoration, yet the market scarcity of their material and an honest price make these DVDs a worthwhile purchase.

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(6.1) Marie Galante (1934) - Spencer Tracy/Ketti Gallian/Ned Sparks/Helen Morgan/Sig Ruman/Leslie Fenton/Arthur Byron/Robert Loraine/Frank Darien (uncredited: Stepin Fetchit/Jay C. Flippen/J. Carrol Naish)