Island of Doomed Men

Island of Doomed Men
Directed by Charles Barton
Written by Robert Hardy Andrews
Starring Peter Lorre
Rochelle Hudson
Robert Wilcox
Cinematography Benjamin Kline
Edited by James Sweeney
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • May 20, 1940 (1940-05-20)
Running time
68 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Island of Doomed Men is a black-and-white 1940 film, released by Columbia Pictures, which was directed by Charles Barton from a screenplay by Robert Hardy Andrews.

Cast

Plot

Stephen Danel (Peter Lorre) lures paroled convicts to his isolated island where they are forced to work as slaves for life. Government agent Mark Sheldon aka "64" (Robert Wilcox) 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 (Rochelle Hudson), is a prisoner too.

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