Adventure Island (film)
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| Directed by | Sam Newfield |
| Produced by | William H. Pine (producer) (uncredited) William C. Thomas (producer) (uncredited)[1] |
| Written by | Lloyd Osbourne Maxwell Shane (writer) Robert Louis Stevenson (novel The Ebb Tide) |
| Starring | Rory Calhoun Rhonda Fleming Paul Kelly John Abbott Alan Napier |
| Music by | Darrell Calker |
| Cinematography | Jack Greenhalgh |
| Edited by | Howard A. Smith |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Release dates
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August 13, 1947 |
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Running time
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66 minutes |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
Adventure Island is a 1947 American South Seas action/adventure film shot in Cinecolor and directed by Sam Newfield (using the pseudonym "Peter Stewart") for Paramount Pictures' Pine-Thomas Productions--one of the few times director Newfield worked for a major studio--and starring Rory Calhoun and Rhonda Fleming.
This film is a remake of the silent film Ebb Tide (1922) and the film Ebb Tide (1937), all based on the novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.
Cast
- Rory Calhoun as Mr. Herrick
- Rhonda Fleming as Faith Wishart
- Paul Kelly as Capt. Donald Lochlin
- John Abbott as Huish
- Alan Napier as Attwater
DVD release
Adventure Island was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on September 1, 2015.[2]
See also
- List of films in the public domain
- Ebb Tide (1922)
- Ebb Tide (1937)
References
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Adventure Island at IMDb
- Review of film at Variety
- Adventure Island is available for free download at the Internet Archive
- Adventure Island at AllMovie
- Adventure Island at Rotten Tomatoes
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- 1940s adventure films
- Films based on British novels
- Films directed by Sam Newfield
- Paramount Pictures films
- Films set in Oceania
- Cinecolor films
- Films based on works by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Action adventure films
