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Hell's Island is a 1955 American film noir directed by Phil Karlson starring John Payne and Mary Murphy. The film was shot in the VistaVision wide-screen format. Hell's Island was re-released in 1962 under the title South Sea Fury. The working titles of this film were Love Is a Weapon and The Ruby Virgin. [2]
Las Vegas bouncer Mike Cormack (John Payne), a onetime attorney whose career was ruined by alcoholism, is given a proposal by a mysterious man named Barzland (Francis L. Sullivan). Mike is to...
- Crime, Drama
- John Payne, Mary Murphy, Francis L. Sullivan
- Phil Karlson
Hell's Island is a 1955 American film noir directed by Phil Karlson starring John Payne and Mary Murphy. Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a C...
- 81 min
- 160
- Classic Old Movies
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
- Phil Karlson
- Pine-Thomas Productions, Paramount Pictures
Reviews. Dec 31, 1954 11:00pm PT. Hell’s Island. Screenplay [from a story by Martin Goldsmith and Jack Leonard] unfolds in the Caribbean port of Puerto Rosario, where the adventuring twirls...
Hell's Island: Directed by Phil Karlson. With John Payne, Mary Murphy, Francis L. Sullivan, Eduardo Noriega. Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby.
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Aug 5, 2019 · Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz. A melodramatic noir film with fine location shots in the Caribbean. Mike Cormack (John Payne) is a former assistant district attorney who after his fiancée dumps him to marry another, develops a drinking problem and is currently employed as a bouncer in a Las Vegas casino called the “Blue Diamond.”
