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To the Ends of the Earth (1948) Robert Stevenson; Dick Powell, Signe Hasso
To the Ends of the Earth (1948) Robert Stevenson; Dick Powell, Signe Hasso
 
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This is a region-free DVD-R without case or artwork.

The relatively relaxed movie censorship in the postwar years enabled Columbia to produce To the Ends of the Earth, a film which dealt with the previously taboo subject of drug smuggling. T-man Dick Powell is sent to several foreign locales to track down an opium ring. The villains are subversives (Red? Fascist?) who plan to take over the world by hooking everyone on the "hard stuff." The film is chock full of mysterious European and Asian "types"  like Vladimir Sokoloff, Ludwig Donath and Fritz Leiber; even leading lady Signe Hasso speaks with an accent, which in 1948 was enough to immediately put her under suspicion. Lending credence to this sprawling adventure yarn is the presence of several actual treasury agents in bit parts, including commissioner Harry J. Anslinger.

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4 of 5 Very fine July 26, 2017
Reviewer: Patrick Hunter from Panorama City, CA United States  
The picture quality is not the best, but very watchable, and the story is a fascinating detective story.

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4 of 5 Very good film; excellent service August 4, 2016
Reviewer: Ron from Toronto, ON Canada  
A good copy, with no gaps, of a film I'd long wanted to see again (the first time was in the 1950s, when I was a child).  It's surprisingly gripping, and now seems a precursor of the early Bond films, though it's based on records of actual Federal investigations.
The order was processed smoothly, and -- despite having to cross the border into Canada -- the delivery time was good.  I'm very pleased.

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5 of 5 TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH March 23, 2014
Reviewer: JAMES MORRELLA from YONKERS, NY United States  
This is an excellently produced film showing how investigations and cooperation between nations can stop narcotics, even if it details such as of 1935.

It is even more interesting when one considers that 10 years after this film was made (1947) the communists instituted the very same. As documented in the books "Red Cocaine" by Dr. Douglas and "Red Horizons" by former head of Romanian Intelligence M. Pacepa Khruschev financed the drug cartels in the late 1950's. Once set up it became a self promoting evil that exists to this day.

It also does not mention that the first time any nation indulged in this evil was in the mid-1800's by the British in the Opium Wars in China.

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5 of 5 To the ends of he earth August 26, 2013
Reviewer: Robert Lovenson from Calabasas, CA United States  
I enjoyed very much .will absolutely use you again .
very happy with quality .Now I know where to get the old movies I want at a good price.

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