Island of Doomed Men
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| Directed by | Charles Barton |
| Screenplay by | Robert Hardy Andrews (as Robert D. Andrews) |
| Starring | Peter Lorre |
| Cinematography | Benjamin Kline |
| Edited by | James Sweeney |
| Music by | Gerard Carbonara (uncredited) |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 67 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Island of Doomed Men is a 1940 American film noir crime film directed by Charles Barton and starring Peter Lorre.[1]
Plot
[edit]Stephen Danel lures paroled convicts to his isolated island where they are forced to work as slaves for life. Government agent Mark Sheldon (code name 64) allows himself to be convicted of a murder he did not commit so that he can spend time in prison and then be paroled to work on Danel's island. It turns out that Danel's beautiful wife, Lorraine Danel, is a prisoner too.
Cast
[edit]- Peter Lorre as Stephen Danel
- Rochelle Hudson as Lorraine Danel
- Robert Wilcox as Mark Sheldon
- Don Beddoe as Brand
- George E. Stone as Siggy
- Kenneth MacDonald as Doctor
- Charles Middleton as Cort
- Stanley Brown as Eddie
- Earl Gunn as Mitchell
References
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Categories:
- 1940 films
- 1940 crime films
- American black-and-white films
- American mystery films
- Films directed by Charles Barton
- Films scored by Gerard Carbonara
- American prison films
- Films set on islands
- Columbia Pictures films
- 1940 mystery films
- Film noir
- 1940s English-language films
- 1940s American films
- English-language crime films
- English-language mystery films
- Mystery film stubs