ISLE OF FURY

Warner Bros., 1936.  Directed by Frank McDonald.  Camera:  Frank Good.  With Humphrey Bogart, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods, Paul Graetz, Gordon Hart, E.E. Clive, George Regas, Sidney Bracy, Tetsu Komai, Miki Morita, Houseley Stevenson, Sr., Frank Lackteen.

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On an island in the South Seas, Val Stevens and Lucille Gordon are being married.  As the ceremony concludes, word is brought that a ship is going down on an offshore reef.  Val rescues Captain Deever and a passenger, Eric Blake.  Eric accompanies Val and his wife on a pearl-fishing expedition and saves Val from an octopus.  A friendship grows between the two men.

An incipient love affair between Eric and Lucille is arrested by Dr. Hardy, who slyly lectures Eric over highballs.  Hardy, believing that Eric is wanted in the States, tells Val of the romance.  When Val confronts the pair, it is revealed that Val himself is the fugitive and that Eric is the detective sent to get him.  Seeing that Val is living a reformed life with Lucille, Eric calls the case closed and leaves the island.  (A typical Hollywood ending! — Doctor Macro)

Bogey:  The Films of Humphrey Bogart,
by Clifford McCarty
Bonanza Books, New York 1965

Additional photos courtesy of Gary