Jon Hall tried to get up another TV series and made some pilots - while he couldn't sell them, he turned them into this film. There's some classy names on the credits - the cast includes John Carradine, Mike Mazurski and Peter Lorre, Elmo Williams edited and directed (along with lee Sholem).
It's a return to the south seas adventures with Hall as an adventurer boating around the Pacific - not dissimilar to Adventures in Paradise but that was a hit. Presumably this annoyed Hall. I guess he was getting on.
It's not very good. It feels like cobbled television. Lots of sets, darkened nighttime scenes, fake South Sea backlot recreations. Stop-start plot. Island girls, kissing, moonlight, all that... just rote.
Lorre livens things up the most.
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