Sinners in Paradise
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| Directed by | James Whale |
| Produced by | Ken Goldsmith (associate producer) |
| Written by | Harold Buckley (story "Halfway to Shanghai") Harold Buckley (screenplay) and Louis Stevens (screenplay) and Lester Cole (screenplay) Robert Lee Johnson[citation needed] (uncredited) |
| Starring | See below |
| Music by | Oliver Wallace |
| Cinematography | George Robinson |
| Edited by | Maurice Wright |
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65 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Sinners in Paradise is a 1938 American film directed by James Whale. In 1966, the film entered the public domain (in the USA) due to the claimants failure to renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.[1]
Contents
Plot summary
A passenger aircraft crashes in mid-Pacific and some of the survivors reach an island inhabited only by an American, Jim Taylor, with his Chinese servant, Ping. He declines to help them, telling them to build their own shelter and gather their own food and, though he has a boat and fuel, refusing to take them off. The reason why he wants to remain undisturbed, we learn, is that he is wanted for murder. In time his attitude to the intruders softens as they, despite endless bickering, manage to form a working community and he finds himself increasingly drawn to an attractive young nurse, Anne Wesson, who is running away from her husband. When the boat is prepared for a trip to civilisation, two crooked businessmen from the party steal it with Ping on board. In a fight, he kills them both and, fatally wounded, brings the boat back. The rest can then escape.
Differences from original story
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Cast
- Madge Evans as Anne Wesson
- John Boles as Jim Taylor
- Bruce Cabot as Robert (The Torpedo) Malone
- Marion Martin as Iris Compton
- Gene Lockhart as Senator John P. Corey
- Charlotte Wynters as Thelma Chase
- Nana Bryant as Mrs. Franklin Sydney
- Milburn Stone as T.L. Honeyman
- Don 'Red' Barry as Jessup
- Morgan Conway as Harrison Brand
- Willie Fung as Ping
Soundtrack
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References
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External links
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- Sinners in Paradise on YouTube
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Sinners in Paradise at IMDb
- Sinners in Paradise is available for free download at the Internet Archive
- Southseascinema.org
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