Adventure Island (film)

Adventure Island
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Sam Newfield
Produced by	William H. Pine (producer) (uncredited) William C. Thomas (producer) (uncredited)[1]
Written by	Lloyd Osbourne Maxwell Shane (writer) Robert Louis Stevenson (novel The Ebb Tide)
Starring	Rory Calhoun Rhonda Fleming Paul Kelly John Abbott Alan Napier
Music by	Darrell Calker
Cinematography	Jack Greenhalgh
Edited by	Howard A. Smith
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	August 13, 1947
Running time	66 minutes
Country	USA
Language	English

Adventure Island is a 1947 American South Seas action/adventure film shot in Cinecolor and directed by Sam Newfield (using the pseudonym "Peter Stewart") for Paramount Pictures' Pine-Thomas Productions--one of the few times director Newfield worked for a major studio--and starring Rory Calhoun and Rhonda Fleming.

This film is a remake of the silent film Ebb Tide (1922) and the film Ebb Tide (1937), all based on the novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.

Cast

• Rory Calhoun as Mr. Herrick
• Rhonda Fleming as Faith Wishart
• Paul Kelly as Capt. Donald Lochlin
• John Abbott as Huish
• Alan Napier as Attwater

DVD release

Adventure Island was released on Region 0 DVD-R by Alpha Video on September 1, 2015.^[2]

See also

• List of films in the public domain
• Ebb Tide (1922)
• Ebb Tide (1937)

References

1. p.125 Eames, John Douglas The Paramount Story Crown, 1985
2. "Alpha Video - Adventure Island (1947) / Gun Cargo (1949)". Retrieved 2015-08-24.

External links

• Adventure Island at the Internet Movie Database
• Review of film at Variety
• Adventure Island is available for free download at the Internet Archive
• Adventure Island at AllMovie
• Adventure Island at Rotten Tomatoes