Horror Island
1941 film by George Waggner
Horror Island is a 1941 film about a down-on-his luck businessman who organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
- Directed by George Waggner. Written by Maurice Tombragel and Victor McLeod, based on the short story "Terror of the South Seas" by Alex Gottlieb.
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Professor Jasper Quinley edit
- Oh, what are you all complaining about? This is exciting! It's adventure! Imagine: lost at sea... on the way to a haunted island... with a ghost castle. Well, one of us might even be murdered!
Other edit
- Sergeant McGoon: Can somebody tell me why lobsters don't like beer?
- Arleen Grady: This place gives me the heebie-jeebies! It reminds me of prison.
- Panama Pete: [over the loudspeaker] Leave the castle... leave the castle!
Dialogue edit
- Professor Jasper Quinley: [examining the treasure map] It's amazing, positively amazing!
- Bill Martin: You mean it's on the level?
- Professor Jasper Quinley: On the level? Do you mean authentic?
- Stuff Oliver: Oh, what we want to know - is it real?
- Bill Martin: [after a mysterious noise] Don't be frightened, folks. It's just Morgan's ghost. He resents our coming here.
- Thurman Coldwater: No more than I do.
- Panama Pete: There is treasure here. I can feel it in my bones.
- Thurman Coldwater: That is your rheumatism.
Cast edit
- Dick Foran — Bill Martin
- Leo Carrillo — Tobias Clump
- Peggy Moran — Wendy Creighton
- Fuzzy Knight — Stuff Oliver
- John Eldredge — George Martin
- Lewis Howard — Thurman Coldwater
- Hobart Cavanaugh — Professor Jasper Quinley
- Walter Catlett — Sergeant McGoon
- Ralf Harolde — Rod Grady
- Iris Adrian — Arleen Grady
- Foy Van Dolsen — Panama Pete/The Phantom
- Emmett Vogan — The Stranger
- Walter Tetley — Delivery Boy
External links edit
- Horror Island quotes at the Internet Movie Database