Marie Galante is a 1934 American film directed by Henry King, starring Ketti Gallian and Spencer Tracy, adapted from a French novel by Jacques Deval.

The synopsis of the musical play, as described by the Kurt Weill Foundation, is as follows: "Marie is kidnapped and taken to Panama by a lecherous sea captain, who abandons her when she will not give in to his desires.

When she does finally save enough money for a steamer fare, she is murdered by a spy who fears discovery the night before the boat sails.

Their business is illegal, so they drop her off at "a seacoast town in Central America", where Marie learns that she must get to the Panama Canal to get a ship to France.

Ratcliff anticipates an attempt on the Canal by the notorious spy, saboteur and fomenter of wars, Ryner, a master of disguises who kills his female accomplices.

Enter tropical disease specialist, Dr. Crawbett, who promises Ratcliff a fine time at the Pacific Gardens café.

Tapia advises Marie that she will get a cut if she drinks with the customers, and orders "a special", orange juice and water.

The New York Times's Andre Sennwald admired Ketti Gallian: Frail, lovely and very quietly over-whelming...a striking addition to the screen's gallery of high-powered ladies.

The work in which she appears is an ambitious and interesting story of international intrigue which is better in intention than in actual achievement... (It) tells the strange tale of a stranded French girl who becomes the innocent central figure in a whirling confusion of sabotage and counter-espionage in the Panama Canal Zone.

Unintentionally shanghaied out of her French seacoast village by a drunken captain of a tramp steamer, Marie finds herself penniless and puzzled in a strange land.

Fleeing the ship at Yucatan, she makes her way to the Canal Zone, hoping to find passage back to her native land.

Ingenuously she becomes involved with several international plotters, who promise to obtain homeward passage for her in return for certain information about the movements of the American fleet.

An American agent (Tracy) who believes her story finally manages to expose a plot to blow up a power plant and disable the fleet.

Unfortunately it suffers from several major flaws, which force the photoplay steadily into mediocrity after a fine beginning... Marie Galante asks its audiences to believe that a girl of presumably average intelligence can be the unwitting dupe of various rogues without once suspecting their intentions.