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Adventure Island is a american film of genre Action directed by Sam Newfield released in USA on 13 august 1947 with Rory Calhoun
Adventure Island (1947)
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Add to a movie listAdventure 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.
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Rory Calhoun
(Herrick)
Rhonda Fleming
(Faith Wishart)
Paul Kelly
(Donald Lochlin)
John Abbott
(Huish)
Alan Napier
(Attwater)
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