“Isle of Fury” (1936) starring Humphrey Bogart / Z-View
Isle of Fury (1936)
Director: Frank McDonald
Screenplay: Robert Hardy Andrews, William Jacobs; based on THE NARROW CORNER by W. Somerset Maugham
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods, E.E. Clive and George Regas.
Tagline: IN LOVE WITH THE MAN SWORN TO CAPTURE HER HUSBAND DEAD OR ALIVE!
The Plot…
On a terrible stormy night on the island of Tankana, Val Stevens and Lucille Gordon are being married. During the ceremony word is brought that a ship has hit the off shore reef and is sinking. Val rushes the wedding vows, calls for some of his workers and goes with them in an attempt to find survivors.
Val is able to save two. Deever, the ship’s Captain and a man named Eric Blake. In short order, Val and Blake become good friends. Such good friends in fact, that Val offers Blake to join him in Val’s pearl harvesting business. What Val doesn’t know is that Eric and Val’s wife are falling in love. And maybe worse, Val came to the island to bring Val back to the United States where he is wanted for murder!
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
Humphrey Bogart wears a mustache that gets my vote for one of the worst in cinema history.
Isle of Fury at just one hour. Perhaps that’s why it feels short on characterization.
Isle of Fury (1936) rates 2 of 5 stars
