Horror Island
Lookout! Terror pays a visit to "Horror Island" and a hunt for buried treasure ...becomes the wierdest adventure...you ever shivered through! the phantom strikes and another victim!
1941 | 60m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | George Waggner |
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| Writer: | Alex Gottlieb, Victor McLeod, Maurice Tombragel |
| Staring: |
| A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 28, 1941 |
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| Director: | George Waggner |
| Writer: | Alex Gottlieb, Victor McLeod, Maurice Tombragel |
| Genres: | Comedy, Horror, Crime, Mystery, Thriller |
| Keywords | secret passage, island, phantom, treasure hunt, murder, treasure map, fireplace, black and white, wooden leg, suit of armor, haunted castle, sleepwalking |
| Production Companies | Universal Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $93,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Dick Foran | Bill Martin |
| Leo Carrillo | Tobias Clump |
| Peggy Moran | Wendy Creighton |
| Fuzzy Knight | Stuff Oliver |
| John Eldredge | Cousin George |
| Lewis Howard | Thurman Coldwater |
| Hobart Cavanaugh | Professor Jasper Quinley |
| Walter Catlett | Sergeant McGoon |
| Ralf Harolde | Rod Grady |
| Iris Adrian | Arleen Grady |
| Foy Van Dolsen | Panama Pete |
| Emmett Vogan | The Stranger |
| Robert Barron | Wreck Spectator (uncredited) |
| Ted Billings | Wreck Spectator (uncredited) |
| Eddy Chandler | Police Officer (uncredited) |
| Don Dillaway | Sailor (uncredited) |
| Walter Tetley | Delivery Boy (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| George Waggner | Director |
| Eddie Parker | Stunts |
| Dale Van Sickel | Stunts |
| Frank Skinner | Music |
| Alex Gottlieb | Story |
| Victor McLeod | Screenplay |
| Maurice Tombragel | Screenplay |
| Elwood Bredell | Director of Photography |
| Otto Ludwig | Editor |
| Martin Obzina | Art Direction |
| Jack Otterson | Art Direction |
| Russell A. Gausman | Set Decoration |
| Vera West | Costume Design |
| Hans J. Salter | Music Director |
| Ralph M. DeLacy | Art Direction |
| Bernard B. Brown | Sound Supervisor |
| Jess Moulin | Sound Mix Technician |
| John Barton | Stunt Double |
| Charles Henderson | Music |
| Charles Previn | Music |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Jack Bernhard | Associate Producer |
| Ben Pivar | Producer |
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Dick Foran is "Bill" who sees an opportunity to start selling treasure-hunting tours to a nearby island he has recently inherited, where there are rumours of a great hoard buried by the famed pirate Sir Henry Morgan. He and pal Fizzy Knight ("Stuff Oliver") recruit a few gullibles and off they set. ... When they arrive, they get a lot more than they bargained for as things really do start to go bump in the night; folks start turning up dead and a mysterious. malevolent voice haunts their old mansion house repeatedly telling them to leave. The script is fun and well paced, though the humour is a touch too slapstick for me at times, and the photography and lighting help create just a little bit of suspense in what is essentially an episode of "Scooby Do" with shadows. Until the end it's as much of a whydunit as a whodunit, and though the plot doesn't really matter - it sustains the hour well enough.