Dangerous Assignment: Assignment China Sea

Dangerous assignment, starring Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell. Danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. They all spell the same thing of trouble. But when I walk into the commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment's going to drop me into a spot where a kiss is either going to cure me or kill me.

Morning, Commissioner. Real sad you had an assignment for me. I do, Steve, and I suppose you were all tied up with a big deal, as usual. Well, let's just call it a pet project. Well, Steve, have you heard the name Captain Jager?

Sure, he's supposed to be a notorious character in the China Seas. Sort of an American soldier of fortune, or I should say sailor of fortune, operates a string of small boats and does just about anything for a buck.

That's a story, all right? Supposedly he runs guns and other contraband of ports on the China coast, but you can never get the goods on him. Well, you're up to date and Captain Jager, all right, and Steve, We're going to use Captain Jager to nail whoever is financing the entire contraband operation.

Then this Captain Jager just runs this string of smuggling boats, huh? You might put it like that. Captain Jager's personal boat is supposed to be a rusty old tramp steamer named the Shanghai Lady. Look, Commissioner, this is all pretty vague.

Captain Jager's ship is named the Shanghai Lady. And we're going to use Jager to nail the brains of the operation. But how? Where do I start? Who do I work with? You report to Naval Intelligence at Luzon in the Philippines, Steve.