Island of Lost Men
Cast & Crew
Kurt Neumann
Anna May Wong
J. Carrol Naish
Anthony Quinn
Eric Blore
Broderick Crawford
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Somewhere north of Singapore, gunrunner Gregory Prin rules an upriver dynasty, an island of lost men. Into Prin's unscrupulous clutches fall a variety of white and native lawbreakers, all seeking the safety of the jungle. Prin sweats and labors his subjects, mistreating them for his own personal enrichment. Young Kim enters this ominous situation in search of her father, General Ling, an official of the Chinese government who has been falsely accused of abscounding with a huge sum of money. Determined to clear her father's name, Kim accepts Prin's invitation to accompany him in search of the general, for she suspects that the old man has fallen into the hands of this brutal tyrant. At Prin's jungle home, Kim meets Chang Tai, a fellow countryman and undercover agent who is also looking for her father. Prin discovers Chang Tai's true identity and orders his death, but his assassin is murdered by natives loyal to Professor Sen, who works for Prin but is plotting to overtake the empire. Prin agrees to work with American Tex Ballister to eliminate Kim and Chang Tai after receiving word that the police are on their way. Unknown to Prin, Chang Tai has recovered the ailing general, whom Prin had hidden in a camp upriver, and Kim has found the stolen Chinese money. Prin lets them escape on the supposition that he will look more respectable if they are absent when the police arrive, but he gives them a boat with little gas and plans to rob and kill them when they are stranded. Prin's right-hand man, Herbert, throws all of Prin's guns into the river as revenge for the murder of his pet monkey. Herbert then joins the general, Chang Tai and Kim when they leave, and with Professor Sen's help, they outwit Prin by taking a different boat. After Prin shoots Professor Sen to death, Prin and Tex are left to face a native rebellion with a gun containing only one bullet. Afraid of being tortured, Tex commits suicide. Prin faces the natives alone, believing they still revere him, and is killed by a spear through his chest. The boat carrying the refugees continues peaceably to Singapore.
Director
Kurt Neumann
Cast
Anna May Wong
J. Carrol Naish
Anthony Quinn
Eric Blore
Broderick Crawford
Ernest Truex
Rudolph Forster
William Haade
Richard Loo
Ralph Soncuya
Rupert Andez
Andres De La Cruz
Sam Labrador
Torben Meyer
Lal Chand Mehra
George Melford
Rafael Storm
George Kirby
Vivian Oakland
Ruth Rickaby
Ethel May Halls
Mitchell Ingraham
Bruce Mitchell
Philip Ahn
Philson Ahn
C. L. Sherwood
Crew
Franz Bachelin
Hans Dreier
George Dutton
A. E. Freudeman
Ellsworth Hoagland
Frederick Hollander
Don Johnson
Charles Lang
William Lebaron
Joseph Lefert
William R. Lipman
Frank Loesser
Horace Mccoy
Karl Struss
Eugene J. Zukor
Film Details
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Notes
The working titles of this picture were North of Singapore and King of the River. It represented Eugene Zukor's first solo production effort. According to a news item in Hollywood Reporter, Eric Blore replaced Herbert Mundin in the role of "Herbert" after Mundin died in an auto accident. In 1933, Paramount made another version of the Norman Reilly Raine-Frank Butler play entitled White Woman .
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1939
Released in United States 1939
