Directed by:
Joseph H. LewisCinematography:
Jerome AshCast:
Lionel Atwill, Una Merkel, Claire Dodd, Nat Pendleton, Anne Nagel, Hardie Albright, Richard Davies, John Eldredge, Mala, Bess Flowers, Dave Willock, Lester Dorr (more)Plots(1)
Atwill as a quack who practices putting people into suspended animation and then reviving them until one day he makes an error and kills a man. He escapes on a ship, but the vessel sinks near a tropical island. Atwill and the other survivors run into native chief Noble Johnson (who almost always played native chiefs, including the one in KING KONG, 1933), and soon the nutty doctor stuns and amazes the locals with his suspended animation trick. Using their respect, Atwill soon sets himself up as king of the island, but his reign is shortlived because a rescue plane arrives and takes everyone but him back to civilization. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Lionel Atwill
UK
Best movies:
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Captain Blood (1935)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Una Merkel
USA
Best movies:
The Parent Trap (1961)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Saratoga (1937)
Claire Dodd
USA
Best movies:
The Black Cat (1941)
Roberta (1935)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Nat Pendleton
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful World (1939)
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Anne Nagel
USA
Best movies:
The Stratton Story (1949)
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
The Hucksters (1947)
Hardie Albright
USA
Best movies:
Bambi (1942)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Saboteur (1942)
Richard Davies
USA
Best movies:
Cimarron (1960)
Christmas Holiday (1944)
The Seventh Victim (1943)
John Eldredge
USA
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
It Started with Eve (1941)
The Black Cat (1941)
Mala
USA
Best movies:
Union Pacific (1939)
North West Mounted Police (1940)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Bess Flowers
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rear Window (1954)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Dave Willock
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Lester Dorr
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Al Bridge
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Wade Boteler
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Love Crazy (1941)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Milton Kibbee
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Noble Johnson
USA
Best movies:
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
King Kong (1933)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Boyd Davis
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Al Kikume
USA
Best movies:
The Hurricane (1937)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Wake of the Red Witch (1948)