Friday, February 16, 2018

Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943), 5-

The owner of a seedy dive and brothel on a South Seas island meets two treasure hunters looking for a sunken ship with a $3-million cargo of gold. She persuades them to let her in on the ... 
1h 22min || 15 August 1943
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Stars: John Carradine, Gale Sondergaard, Sidney Toler

Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Music | Romance
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036046/
On megapack as Monsoon.

NO idea why this is tagged Music. Soundtracks lists 3 songs with 'sung by' notations, but I don't remember much of it.

The plot is the king here, and it's a mighty small kingdom. The print is pretty bad, and might have been spliced to repair damage, otherwise the editing is very choppy.

Monsoon is the better title, because the storm effects are better than the story. Unfortunately the storm comes at the end of the film and doesn't last very long. When the sky clears, we see the top 2 billed with her old cash register. If they explained what happened to the rest of the cast, I missed it.

Not sufficiently annoying to earn a 4. But strongly recommend against wasting time on it again.

Atlantis Pictures, distr. PRC, dir. Ulmer; 5-