Port Sinister

Port Sinister (1953)

They Wanted Treasure...And They Didn't Care How They Got It!

A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, some thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there, a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack them all.

Date of release
1953-04-10
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 5m
Genres
Adventure, Crime, Science Fiction
Director
Harold Daniels

Casting

Interesting facts

Port Sinister is an American independently made black-and-white adventure science fiction film produced by Jack Pollexfen and Albert Zugsmith and directed by Harold Daniels. It was released in 1953. The film was written by Jack Pollexfen and Aubrey Wisberg and stars James Warren, Lynne Roberts, and Paul Cavanagh. Port Sinister was theatrically distributed by RKO Radio Pictures.

Production

Pollexfen and Wisberg had already made Captive Women and Sword of Venus for RKO. Port Sinister was filmed at the RKO studios with location work at Palos Verdes, California. It is the third and final film made by American Pictures Company by these producers. The movie had the working titles Port Royal—Ghost City Beneath the Sea, Sunken City and City Beneath the Sea. It was based on the real city of Port Royal.

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