Hell's Island
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 Hell's Island movie poster |
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| Directed by | Phil Karlson |
| Produced by | William H. Pine William C. Thomas |
| Written by | Martin Goldsmith (story) Jack Leonard (story) William H. Pine Maxwell Shane William C. Thomas |
| Starring | John Payne Mary Murphy |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 6, 1955 (U.S. release) |
| Running time | 84 min |
| Language | English |
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Hell's Island is a 1955 film starring John Payne. The film was the last teaming of actor Payne and film director Phil Karlson. The color film was shot in the VistaVision wide-screen format. Hell's Island was rereleased in 1962 under the title South Sea Fury. The film is told as a flashback with Payne narrating the story.
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[edit] Plot
After being dumped by his fiancée, hard-drinking and depressed Mark Cormack looses his job in the L.A. district attorney's office and serves as bouncer in a Las Vegas casino. A wheelchair-bound stranger (Sullivan) hires him to locate a ruby that disappeared in a Caribbean plane crash. He lures Cormack into doing the job by telling him it may be in the possession of the very woman who jilted him. The detective flies to remote island Santo Rosario to find the stone and investigate the mystery. When he finds his old flame he finds that her husband is in prison. Cormack, again falling for Janet, is convinced into helping him break out of jail.
[edit] Reaction
The film comes near the end of the film noir cycle and at a time when Payne's unsmiling and fatigued expression in film had become something of a noir icon.
[edit] Featured cast
| Actor | Role |
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| John Payne | Mike Cormack |
| Mary Murphy | Janet Martin |
| Eduardo Noriega | Inspector Peña |
| Francis L. Sullivan | Barzland |
[edit] References
- ↑ Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward (1992). Film Noir An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style. The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5.
