Captain Scarface (1953) on Netflix

Plot summary

Soviets sink a tramp steamer off South America and refit another vessel to pass as the same ship, bound for the Panama Canal with an atomic device aboard. The replacement crew then takes on the passengers who had booked passage. Sam Wilton, an American plantation overseer, has overstayed his welcome by making love to his employer's wife and is wounded in the gunfight that follows. He needs to reach the United States without the passport still at the plantation, so at the Los Rios Hotel in San Brejo he asks Manuel, the owner, for a passport in a false name. While he waits he watches the other travelers: Fred and Kate Dilts, Everett Crofton, the mysterious Mr. Kroll, and Dr. Yeager with his daughter Elsa.