Dick Foran is the hero in Horror Island, but i Horror island is not along the lines of Universal's
usual monster films. Foran's a rather different kind of action/adventure hero in
this film. He's a Princeton graduate who's unemployed. Not unusual for those
Depressions years but digging ditches for the WPA ain't for him.
Instead he lives on a houseboat with Fuzzy Knight and is cooking up schemes to get rich quick. What he does own is an island with a castle on it reputed to be built by that notorious buccaneer Sir Henry Morgan. And where there are pirates there should be treasure.
So Foran accumulates an interesting group of treasure hunters and takes them on his S.S. Minow like boat for a three hour tour. Such people as John Eldredge, Peggy Moran, Hobart Cavanaugh, Iris Adrian, Walter Catlett and most of all Leo Carrillo a pegleg sailor with half a map hidden in his hollow carved prosthesis.
A few people get dead before we find out who's doing the killing. It starts to look a lot like And Then There Were None.
Horror Island is a bit uneven but fun in its way. A great example of how Universal used those great gothic sets over and over again.
Instead he lives on a houseboat with Fuzzy Knight and is cooking up schemes to get rich quick. What he does own is an island with a castle on it reputed to be built by that notorious buccaneer Sir Henry Morgan. And where there are pirates there should be treasure.
So Foran accumulates an interesting group of treasure hunters and takes them on his S.S. Minow like boat for a three hour tour. Such people as John Eldredge, Peggy Moran, Hobart Cavanaugh, Iris Adrian, Walter Catlett and most of all Leo Carrillo a pegleg sailor with half a map hidden in his hollow carved prosthesis.
A few people get dead before we find out who's doing the killing. It starts to look a lot like And Then There Were None.
Horror Island is a bit uneven but fun in its way. A great example of how Universal used those great gothic sets over and over again.