Unknown Island
| Unknown Island | |
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| Directed by | Jack Bernhard |
| Produced by | Albert J. Cohen |
| Written by |
Story: Robert T. Shannon Screenplay Robert T. Shannon Jack Harvey |
| Starring |
Virginia Grey Phillip Reed Richard Denning Barton MacLane Ray Corrigan |
| Music by | Raoul Kraushaar (credited as Ralph Stanley) |
| Cinematography | Fred Jackman Jr. Robert Gough Milton Gold |
| Edited by | Harry Gerstad |
| Distributed by | Film Classics, Inc. |
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Release date
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October 15, 1948 |
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Running time
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75 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Unknown Island is a 1948 adventure film directed by Jack Bernhard and shot in Cinecolor. The film features monsters such as dinosaurs and a giant sloth and stars Virginia Grey, Phillip Reed, Richard Denning and Barton MacLane. Ray Corrigan also appears in this film, playing a Giant sloth. It also has the giant sloth fight and kill a Ceratosaurus identified as a Tyrannosaurus rex in the movie. A deleted extended scene shows a "Brontosaurus" watch as the dinosaur and sloth fight in a lake nearby; it can be found on the BBC Motion Gallery but the footage is in black and white due to the lack of colour film during the period of austerity immediately following the Second World War.
Adventure-seeker Ted Osborne (Phillip Reed) and his fiancee Carole (Virginia Grey) are at a cafe in Singapore, looking for a charter to an island supposedly inhabited by dinosaurs. They come across the ruthless, two fisted, alcohol-suffering Captain Tarnowski (Barton MacLane). They decide to talk, and Osborne asks is Tarnowski is willing to give them a charter in his ship to the unknown island. Initially Tarnowski refuses, but then Osborne tells that during World War II he was a pilot in the US Navy. He had flown over many remote islands, and on one he reported seeing large, moving things that looked like Brontosaurus dinosaurs. He shows Tarnowski a photo, and the captain finally agrees to take them there. Before departing, Tarnowski introduces them to John Fairbanks (Richard Denning), an old friend of his, who agrees to help them with their quest. Fairbanks and a group of friends had been shipwrecked on the island with Fairbanks being the lone survivor of attack by the dinosaurs. As Fairbanks had been drinking incessantly to forget the events of the past since his rescue, his account of the dinosaur island was believed to be the result of alcoholism and insanity. Since Fairbanks and Osborne's stories collaborated, Tarnowski agrees to allow his ship to be hired, but specifies that no one in the crew be told of their destination.
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