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Mercy Island is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Morgan released in USA on 9 october 1941 with Ray Middleton
Mercy Island (1941)
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Add to a movie listMercy Island is a 1941 American drama that was nominated at the 1941 Academy Awards for Best Score of a Dramatic Picture-which Walter Scharf and Cy Feuer received nominations for.
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A young man takes his wife and a friend on a fishing trip to the Florida Keys on a boat owned by local Conks. Following a blow on the head when their boat hits a shallow bottom and loses its propeller, the husband becomes mentally unstable and believes his wife is having an affair.Actors
Ray Middleton
(Warren Ramsey)
Gloria Dickson
(Leslie Ramsey)
Otto Kruger
(Dr. Sanderson)
Donald Douglas
(Clay Foster)
Forrester Harvey
(Captain Lowe)
Terry Kilburn
(Wiccy)
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