Malaya poster

Movie · 1949

Malaya

“When you kiss a girl in Malaya...keep your eyes wide open and a gun in your hand!”

Released 27 December 1949 98 min Adventure / Drama More from 1949 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he could easily smuggle rubber, a key wartime natural resource, out of Malaya has him tasked with doing just that. He manages to get someone from his past, Carnaghan, sprung from Alactraz and together they head off to South East Asia posing as Irishmen. Once there, Carnaghan lines up some of his old cronies and with Royer and a few plantation owners plans to smuggle the rubber out from under the Japanese army's watchful eye.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Lionel Barrymore
as John Manchester
71
Sydney Greenstreet
as The Dutchman
70
Spencer Tracy
as Carnaghan
49
Richard Loo
as Colonel Genichi Tomura
46
Roland Winters
as Bruno Gruber
45
Tom Helmore
as Matisson
45
Robert B. Williams
as Army Sergeant (uncredited)
45
Gilbert Roland
as Romano
44
Frank Wilcox
as Naval Officer with Businessmen (uncredited)
42
James Stewart
as John Royer
41
David Fresco
as Barracuda Ed (uncredited)
40
John Hodiak
as Kellar
35
Ian MacDonald
as Carlos Tassuma
35
DeForest Kelley
as Lt. Glenson (uncredited)
29
Valentina Cortese
as Luana
26
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
45years between the oldest and youngest billed
71Lionel Barrymore — oldest on the call sheet
26Valentina Cortese — youngest billed
44average age of the credited cast
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