To the Ends of the Earth

To the Ends of the Earth is an American crime film noir directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Sidney Buchman and Jay Richard Kennedy. The drama features Dick Powell, Signe Hasso, and others. In 1935, United States Narcotics Agent Michael Barrows is assigned to find an unidentified freighter suspected of smuggling drugs. When he and the Coast Guard spot it along the California coast, they give chase. Barrows watches helplessly through binoculars as the freighter captain has about a hundred chained slave laborers thrown overboard to drown. The ship escapes by passing beyond the 12 mile... limit and entering international waters. Horrified by what he has seen, Barrows determines to smash the narcotics ring - traveling "to the ends of the Earth" if need be - without first clearing it with his boss, Commissioner H. J. Anslinger . The trail leads him to Shanghai where his Chinese counterpart, Commissioner Lum Chi Chow , has obtained information from a dying man. The man had escaped from a slave labor gang growing poppies somewhere in Egypt.
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