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Island of Doomed Men is a american film of genre Drama directed by Charles Barton released in USA on 20 may 1940 with Peter Lorre

Island of Doomed Men (1940)

Island of Doomed Men
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Released in USA 20 may 1940
Length 1h8
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Crime
Rating58% 2.9004552.9004552.9004552.9004552.900455

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.

Synopsis

Mark Sheldon (Robert Wilcox) is an undercover secret service operative. He is assigned to investigate a modern time slave organization on a desert island way out in the Pacific. The organization hires prison convicts on parole and puts them into hard labor on the island, where they are unable to leave when they wish. Sheldon's partner on the case is just about to reveal that the head of the racketeering operation on the island is a man named Stephen Danel (Peter Lorre), when he gets murdered. Sheldon suspects that Danel has ordered the kill and decides to go on investigating on his own. He goes undercover to solve the murder, and poses like a criminal who gets framed and convicted for murdering a fellow operative and is sent to the prison. Soon enough he is paroled and gets hired by Danel's operation. He is transported to the island to do hard labor in a mine. He discovers that the men on the island is literally worked to death by Danel, and that he sends for new workers from the prison when the old ones are "finished".

Actors

Peter Lorre

(Stephen Danel)Rochelle Hudson

(Lorraine Danel)Robert Wilcox

(Mark Sheldon)George E. Stone

(Siggy)Charles Middleton

(Captain Cort)
And :
Don Beddoe
Kenneth MacDonald
Sam Ash
Raymond Bailey
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