Island of Doomed Men

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Island of Doomed Men

"There's no escape... from his FIEND'S PARADISE of torture!"

1940

1h 7m

5.5(18 votes)

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Overview

An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.

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10 featured cast members

Starring

Peter Lorre

Stephen Danel

Rochelle Hudson

Lorraine Danel

Robert Wilcox

Mark Sheldon

Don Beddoe

Brand

George E. Stone

Siggy

Kenneth MacDonald

Doctor Rosener

Charles Middleton

Captain Cort

Stanley Brown

Eddie

Earl Gunn

Mitchell

Sam Ash

Ames - Parolee (uncredited)

Creative team

Directed by: Charles Barton
Written by: Robert Hardy Andrews

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