Film

Lovers and Luggers

1938 · 1h 39m · Adventure · Romance

Epic pearling adventure romance in glorious sun-splashed tropical settings of Thursday Island!

IMDb

6.6

Daubeney Carshott, a concert pianist, leaves London to dive for pearls on Thursday Island in the South Seas at the whim of Stella Raff, his fiancée. Once there, he discovers that the life he leads as a pearl diver is better in every way than his former existence as a social-lion pianist. He meets and falls in love with Lorna Quidley, after learning this Stella had send other suitors off in quest of a giant pearl for her.

Lloyd Hughes

Daubeney Carshott

James Raglan

Bill Craig, alias Craig Henderson

Elaine Hamill

Stella Raff

Sidney Wheeler

Capt. 'Quid' Quidley

Alec Kellaway

McTavish, an Old Sot

Ron Whelan

Mendoza

Campbell Copelin

Archie

Leslie Victor

Dormer, an Old Sot

Charlie Chan

Kishimuni, Pearl Diver

Claude Turton

Charlie Quong

Frank Harvey

Carshott's Personal Manager

Ann Richards

Lorna Quidley (as Shirley Ann Richards)

• Ken G. HallDirector
• Frank HarveyScreenplay
• Edmund BarclayStory
• George HeathDirector of Photography
• William ShepherdEditor

Release date

March 3, 1938

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

NR

Genres

Adventure, Romance