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Port Sinister is a american film of genre Science fiction released in USA on 10 april 1953 with Lynne Roberts
Port Sinister (1953)
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Add to a movie listPort Sinister (1953), known as Beast of Paradise Isle in the UK is an adventure/science fiction film written by Jack Pollexfen and Aubrey Wisberg and directed by Harold Daniels. The plot synopsis consists of a 17th-century Caribbean city of Port Royal which has been long rumoured to have been visited by pirates rises from the ocean floor.
However, when a scientist goes to investigate the incident—and at the same time the local thugs plan to steal the gold—all are attacked by giant crabs living there.
Pollexfen and Wisberg had already made Captive Women and Sword of Venus for RKO. Port Sinister was filmed at the RKO studios with location work at Palos Verdes California.
Actors
Lynne Roberts
(Dr. Joan Hunter)
Paul Cavanagh
(John Kolvac)
William Schallert
(Collins)
Robert Bice
(George Burt)
House Peters, Jr.
(Jim Garry)
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