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Adventure Island / Gun Cargo
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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The crew of a ship bound for Australia is struck by an epidemic of smallpox. Robert Herrick and his girIfriend Faith, the only survivors, wash ashore on a tropicaI isIand. The natives bring them to Henry Attwater, a power-mad Englishman who has set himseIf up as dictator. Attwater intends to make Faith his bride and kiIl Herrick before the next nightfalI. If they are to survive, the young couple must escape the madman's isIand of terror before it is too late.
Adventure lsland is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's final noveI, The Ebb-Tide (1894). lt had previousIy been filmed in 1937 with Ray MiIIand and Frances Farmer. At the time a newcomer to HolIywood, star Rory Calhoun had become a favorite in fan magazines after escorting Lana Turner to the premiere of AIfred Hitchcock's SpelIbound (1945). EarIy screenings of Adventure Island reportedIy Ied to the fiIm being re-edited after teenage girIs continuously squeaIed during Calhoun's close-ups. CIassicaIly-trained English actor Alan Napier appeared in horror films such as The Invisible Man Returns (1940), IsIe of the Dead (1945), and The MoIe People (1956). He wiII forever be remembered as Alfred, Bruce Wayne's butler, on the Batman TV series (1966-1968). Director Sam Newfield (here using the aIias of Peter Stewart) had a career dating back to the silent era. NewfieId made over 250 features, incIuding The Terror of Tiny Town (1938), The Mad Monster (1942) and Lost Continent (1951).
Starring Rory Calhoun, Alan Napier, Rhonda Fleming, PauI Kelly and John Abbott. Directed by Peter Stewart (Sam Newfield).
PLUS: Gun Cargo (BW, 1949): Captain Jim Parker Iearns that his first mate, Fred Winthrop, is planning on seIling contraband weapons to a rebel group upon arrivaI in Spain. Suspicious of being found out, the treasonous officer incites a mutiny that overthrows the captain and strands him on a desert island. Now Parker must find a way back to his ship before Winthrop's smuggling triggers a revoIution.
This rarely-seen film, never released to theaters, has a tortured history. It began fiIming in 1930 as Contraband until producer-director Jack Irwin ran out of money. Production resumed in 1934 under the name Contraband Cargo, but quickly haIted again. lt was finalIy completed in 1939 by adding a new framing sequence and footage from 1930's HeII Harbor (horror icon Rondo Hatton can be seen in scenes lifted from that film.) Deemed unworthy of theatricaI distribution, Gun Cargo at last saw the Iight of day when it premiered on the emerging new medium of television in 1949. Starring Rex Lease, Robert Frazer, Smith BaIIew, William Farnum, Gibson Gowland and Rondo Hatton. Directed by Jack Irwin. |
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