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The Decks Ran Red (M-G-M), another high-tension, low-budget movie made by Andrew and Virginia Stone (Julie, Cry Terror!), is a shipboard scare-show that will probably make a good many customers queasy—some because they cannot stand the sight of so much blood, others because they like their terror firmer. The story begins aboard a greasy old freighter when one of the hands (Broderick Crawford) decides that the world has too many people and he has too little money. He knows exactly how to solve both problems at once: murder everybody on board, then claim the ship as salvage. With the help of a misanthropic messmate, he actually makes a good start on this project but meets his match in a courageous captain (James Mason) and a ravishing Maori girl (Dorothy Dandridge). Not that it matters, but the title is misleading. Since the picture is not in color, the decks only run black and white.