Island of Doomed Men
1940 American film
- May 20, 1940 (1940-05-20)
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Island of Doomed Men is a 1940 American film noir crime film directed by Charles Barton and starring Peter Lorre.[1]
Plot
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
- 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
- ^ Peter Lorre (Midnight Marquee Actors Series)
External links
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- Island of Doomed Men at IMDb
- Island of Doomed Men at the TCM Movie Database
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Films directed by Charles Barton
- Wagon Wheels (1934)
- Car 99 (1935)
- The Last Outpost (1935)
- Nevada (1935)
- Timothy's Quest (1936)
- And Sudden Death (1936)
- Murder with Pictures (1936)
- Rose Bowl (1936)
- The Crime Nobody Saw (1937)
- Forlorn River (1937)
- Thunder Trail (1937)
- Born to the West (1937)
- Behind Prison Gates (1939)
- Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939)
- My Son Is Guilty (1939)
- Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)
- Island of Doomed Men (1940)
- Babies for Sale (1940)
- Out West with the Peppers (1940)
- Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940)
- The Phantom Submarine (1940)
- Nobody's Children (1940)
- Honolulu Lu (1941)
- The Richest Man in Town (1941)
- Sing for Your Supper (1941)
- Two Latins from Manhattan (1941)
- Shut My Big Mouth (1942)
- Sweetheart of the Fleet (1942)
- Parachute Nurse (1942)
- Lucky Legs (1942)
- The Spirit of Stanford (1942)
- Laugh Your Blues Away (1942)
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1942)
- Reveille with Beverly (1943)
- What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943)
- Is Everybody Happy? (1943)
- She Has What It Takes (1943)
- Beautiful but Broke (1944)
- Hey, Rookie (1944)
- Jam Session (1944)
- Louisiana Hayride (1944)
- The Beautiful Cheat (1945)
- Men in Her Diary (1945)
- The Time of Their Lives (1946)
- Smooth as Silk (1946)
- White Tie and Tails (1946)
- Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
- The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
- The Noose Hangs High (1948)
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
- Mexican Hayride (1948)
- Africa Screams (1949)
- Free for All (1949)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
- The Milkman (1950)
- Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952)
- Dance with Me, Henry (1956)
- The Shaggy Dog (1959)
- Toby Tyler (1960)
- Swingin' Along (1962)
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