Post by teleadm on Aug 9, 2019 17:20:33 GMT
Fog Island 1945, directed by Terry Morse, based on a play by Bernadine Angus, starring George Zucco, Lionel Atwill, Jerome Cowan, Veda Ann Borg, Sharon Douglas, John Whitney, Jacqueline deWit, Ian Keith and George Lloyd, and nobody else.
Our old site called it a Drama, Horror, Mystery, and Horror it's definitely not! I would call it a so called locked-room mystery/detective-like story.
An inventor (Zucco) recently released from prison invites a group of former business associates to a holiday on his island home, intending to exact revenge on them. An old pirate's home filled with trap doors and secret passages. One of his guests murdered his wife while he was in prison, so he calculates that some will show greed, for a fortune he is supposed to have hidden.
I watched a rather awful public domain version, with lots of hicks and hacks, but thankfully the important scenes were fairly intact. Since this was a PRC movie originally it was pretty low-budget with very few sets, or this was a medium production according to PRC.
While far from a great movie, offcourse, it's not a total disaster, thanks to old timers that had "fallen from grace", actors like Zucco and Atwill, who could still do their things, and strangely their only movie together.
Cinematographer Ira H. Morgan should also be mentioned, he was a big name during the silent years, and have Chaplin's Modern Times on his CV, and it's thanks to him that this movie has some interesting camera angles with very little movements that makes this movie at least passable, while director Terry Morse, who I have never heard about seems uninterested..
Sadly, unless you are a huge fan of some of the actors, it's not a necessary viewing.
Our old site called it a Drama, Horror, Mystery, and Horror it's definitely not! I would call it a so called locked-room mystery/detective-like story.
An inventor (Zucco) recently released from prison invites a group of former business associates to a holiday on his island home, intending to exact revenge on them. An old pirate's home filled with trap doors and secret passages. One of his guests murdered his wife while he was in prison, so he calculates that some will show greed, for a fortune he is supposed to have hidden.
I watched a rather awful public domain version, with lots of hicks and hacks, but thankfully the important scenes were fairly intact. Since this was a PRC movie originally it was pretty low-budget with very few sets, or this was a medium production according to PRC.
While far from a great movie, offcourse, it's not a total disaster, thanks to old timers that had "fallen from grace", actors like Zucco and Atwill, who could still do their things, and strangely their only movie together.
Cinematographer Ira H. Morgan should also be mentioned, he was a big name during the silent years, and have Chaplin's Modern Times on his CV, and it's thanks to him that this movie has some interesting camera angles with very little movements that makes this movie at least passable, while director Terry Morse, who I have never heard about seems uninterested..
Sadly, unless you are a huge fan of some of the actors, it's not a necessary viewing.