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“Isle of Forgotten Sins” is an American South Seas adventure film released on August 15, 1943, with Leon Fromkess in charge of production, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer (who is also credited with the film’s original story) and featuring top-billed John Carradine and Gale Sondergaard. “Isle of Forgotten Sins” was subsequently reissued in a version cut from 82 to 74 minutes and retitled “Monsoon”. Composer Leo Erdody, a long time friend of Edgar G. Ulmer included several songs and pieces from Richard Wagner’s music in the film

The female owner of a seedy dive and brothel on a South Seas island meets two treasure hunters looking for a sunken ship full with cargo of gold. She persuades them to let her in on the deal. Complications ensue because of intrigue, double-crosses and an approaching violent monsoon.

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Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, produced by Leon Fromkess and Peter R. Van Duinen, written by Edgar G. Ulmer (originally story) and Raymond L. Schrock (sceenplay), starring John Carradine as Clancy, Gale Sondergaard as Marge, Sidney Toler as Krogan, Frank Fenton as Burke, Veda Ann Borg as Luana, Rita Quigley as Diane, Rick Vallin as Johnny Pacific, Tala Birell as Christine, Patti McCarty as Bobbie, Betty Amann as Olga, Marian Colby … as Mimi and William Edmonds as Chief.

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Source: “Isle of Forgotten Sins” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 21 February 2013. Web. 20 April 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Forgotten_Sins.

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After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: John Gielgud, Peter Lorre. Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young, Lilli Palmer

Secret Agent (1936) is a British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on two stories in Ashenden: Or the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham. The film starred John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, and Robert Young. Future star Michael Redgrave made a brief, uncredited appearance; he would play the male lead in Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes two years later. (Wikipedia)

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Piano player Al (Tom Neal) is bitter about having to work in a New York nightclub. After his girlfriend Sue (Claudia Drake) leaves to seek fame in Hollywood, he decides to join her. With little money, he has to hitchhike his way across the country. In Arizona, bookie Charles Haskell Jr. (Edmund MacDonald) gives him a ride in his convertible. Haskell has Al pass him pills several times along the way. That night, Al is driving while Haskell sleeps, when a rainstorm forces Al to pull over to put up the top. Unable to rouse Haskell, Al opens the passenger-side door. Haskell falls out and strikes his head on the ground. Al then realizes the bookie is dead. Fearful that the police will believe he killed Haskell, Al dumps the body off the side of the road, takes Haskell’s money, clothes and identification, then drives away. After spending the night in a motel, Al picks up another hitchhiker, Vera (Ann Savage), at a gas station. By sheer bad luck, it turns out that the femme fatale had also been picked up by Haskell earlier. She scratched him deeply in the arm and got out after he tried to become too friendly. When Al identifies himself as Haskell, she blackmails him by threatening to turn him in.

In Hollywood, they rent an apartment, posing as Mr. and Mrs. Haskell to provide an address when they go to sell the car. However, Vera learns from a newspaper that Haskell’s wealthy father is near death and looking for his son, who ran away as a youth after accidentally injuring his friend. Vera demands that Al impersonate Haskell, but Al balks at this notion, pointing out that he knows nothing about the dead man. Back in the apartment, Vera gets drunk, and they begin arguing. She threatens to call the police, running into the bedroom with the telephone and locking the door. She falls into a stupor on the bed, with the telephone cord tangled around her neck. Al tries to break the cord. Then, when he breaks down the door, he sees that he has accidentally strangled her. He goes hitchhiking again, but is picked up by the police.

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Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, produced by Leon Fromkess, written by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney, starring Tom Neal as Al Roberts, Ann Savage as Vera, Claudia Drake as Sue Harvey, Edmund MacDonald as Charles Haskell Jr, Tim Ryan as Nevada Diner Proprietor, Esther Howard as Holly, Diner Waitress, Pat Gleason as Joe, Trucker at Diner and Don Brodie as the Used Car Salesman.

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Source: “Detour” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 4 January 2013. Web. 07 April 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detour_(1945_film).

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