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Island of Doomed Men

Island of Doomed Men
Island of Doomed Men FilmPoster.jpeg
Directed byCharles Barton
Screenplay byRobert Hardy Andrews
(as Robert D. Andrews)
StarringPeter Lorre
CinematographyBenjamin Kline
Edited byJames Sweeney
Production
company
Columbia Pictures
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • May 20, 1940
Running time
67 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Island of Doomed Men is a 1940 American film noir crime film directed by Charles Barton and starring Peter Lorre.

Plot

Stephen Danel lures paroled convicts to his isolated island where they are forced to work as slaves for life. Government agent Mark Sheldon aka "64" allows himself to be convicted of a murder he did not commit so that he can spend time in prison and then be paroled to work on Danel's island. It turns out that Danel's beautiful wife, Lorraine Danel, is a prisoner too.

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