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Director
  
James Cruze

Screenplay
  
Walter Woods

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

5.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Mystery

Producer
  
Jesse L. Lasky

Terror Island movie poster

Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Writer
  
Arthur B. Reeve
,
Walter Wooda

Release date
  
April 1920

Story by
  
Arthur B. Reeve, John Grey

Cast
  
Harry Houdini
(Harry Harper),
Jack Brammall
(Tom Starkey),
Lila Lee
(Beverly West),
Wilton Taylor
(Job Mourdant),
Eugene Pallette
(Guy Mourdant),
Ed Brady
(Captain Black)

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Terror island silent 1920 harry houdini


Terror Island is a 1920 American silent adventure film produced by Jesse Lasky and directed by James Cruze. It is a starring vehicle for illusionist Harry Houdini here costarring with Lila Lee. This film listed as 7 reels by the AFI but two reels are lost/missing with only 5 reels remaining. The film had the working title of Salvage.

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Plot

Beverly West appeals to Harry Harper, the inventor of a submarine device for salvaging sunken vessels, to help her rescue her father from the South Sea natives who are holding him as a ransom for the skull shaped pearl that Beverly possesses. Also desirous of the pearl is Job Mourdant, Beverly's guardian, who kidnaps his ward and heads out to sea. Harry follows and saves Beverly when Mourdant throws her overboard.

After the two parties arrive on the island, Harry is captured but escapes in time to see the natives thrust Beverly into an iron safe and throw her into the sea. Once again, Harry saves the girl, and finally procures the gems after struggling with a man in a diving suit. Harry then so impresses the natives with his magic that they release Beverly and her father and the three set sail for home.

Cast

  • Harry Houdini as Harry Harper
  • Lila Lee as Beverly West, niece of Job Mordaunt
  • Jack Brammall as Ensign Tom Starkey
  • Wilton Taylor as Job Mordaunt
  • Eugene Pallette as Guy Mordaunt
  • Edward Brady as Captin Marsh
  • Frank Bonner as Chief Bakaida
  • Ted E. Duncan as First Officer Murphy
  • Fred Turner as Mr. West
  • Rosemary Theby as Sheila Mourdant, Guy Mordaunt's wife
  • References

    Terror Island Wikipedia
    Terror Island IMDb Terror Island themoviedb.org