The Mercury specialised in adapting better known stories than this but Orson Welles was presumably attracted by the juicy role that he could play: He plays an enigmatic mystery man who winds up on a passenger ship to Bali and because of his presence no one will let the ship dock. That sounds like ideal material for, say, a Val Lewton film (The Ghost Ship was in the same ball park) – or even an Orson Welles thriller.
It’s pretty fair entertainment - Welles later reprised the role a number of years later.
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