Island of Doomed Men (1940)
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
Top billed cast
Peter LorreStephen Danel
Rochelle HudsonLorraine Danel
Robert WilcoxMark Sheldon
Don BeddoeBrand
George E. StoneSiggy
Kenneth MacDonaldDoctor Rosener
Charles MiddletonCaptain Cort
Stanley BrownEddie
Earl GunnMitchell
Sam AshAmes - Parolee (uncredited)
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