Horror Island (1941)
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!
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.
- Date of release
- 1941-03-28
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (34)
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Genres
- Mystery, Comedy, Horror
- Director
- George Waggner
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
Horror Island is a 1941 American mystery and horror film directed by George Waggner. It was based on the short story "Terror of the South Seas" by Alex Gottlieb. It stars Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Leo Carrillo, Eddie Parker, Dale Van Sickle, John Eldredge, Lewis Howard, Hobart Cavanaugh, Iris Adrian and Fuzzy Knight. Foy Van Dolsen plays the monstrous villain "Panama Pete", alias "The Phantom". The plot has assorted colorful characters going to a mysterious island to seek a pirate's hidden fortune.
Production
Horror Island was developed to be the accompanying half of a double feature with Man-Made Monster. It was developed under the working title of Terror of the South Seas. An article in the Hollywood Reporter from January 1941 stated that writer Samuel J. Warshawsky was assigned by supervising producer Joseph Santley to work on the screenplay for this film, but its undetermined if either man contributed to the released film.
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