Hell Ship Mutiny
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Duration Cinematography Sam Leavitt Country USA | 5/10 Genre Action, Adventure, Crime Running time 1h 6m Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Director Elmo Williams, Lee Sholem Writer DeVallon Scott , Wells Root Release date 6 December 1957 Music director Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter Cast Jon Hall (Capt. Jim Knight), John Carradine (Malone), Peter Lorre (Lamoret), Mike Mazurki (Ross), Stanley Adams (Roxy), Roberta Haynes (Princess Mareva)Similar movies Jon Hall appears in Hell Ship Mutiny and South of Pago Pago |
Hell Ship Mutiny is a 1957 American South Seas adventure film directed by Lee Sholem and Elmo Williams starring Jon Hall who also produced and narrated the film. It is a compilation of a 1955 unsold television pilot Knight of the South Seas. Hall's father Felix Locher plays the role of a native chief.
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This film is now in the public domain.
Plot
Captain Jim Knight, and his crew Roxy, Tula, and a chimp named Salty sail the South Seas in search of adventure. They discover a criminal gang has taken over a small island, forcing the native pearl divers to dive beyond safe limits.
After capturing the three man gang, Knight takes them to Tahiti for trial where the men escape and force Knight to sail them to New Zealand. Knight subdues them again but this time a minor French magistrate is sent to the island to try them there. The magistrate joins the criminals when a native boy locates the wreck of a lost ship containing a Burmese king's treasure.
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