Voodoo Island
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| Directed by | Reginald Le Borg |
| Produced by | Howard W. Koch |
| Written by | Richard H. Landau |
| Starring |
Boris Karloff Beverly Tyler Murvyn Vye Elisha Cook Jr. |
| Music by | Les Baxter |
| Cinematography | William Margulies |
| Edited by | John F. Schreyer |
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Bel-Air Productions
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| Distributed by | United Artists (1957, original) MGM (2005, DVD) |
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Running time
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82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $150,000 |
Voodoo Island is a 1957 horror film directed by Reginald Le Borg and written by Richard H. Landau. The cast includes Boris Karloff, Elisha Cook Jr. and Rhodes Reason. The film is set in the South Pacific and was filmed on Kauai, Hawaii back to back with Jungle Heat.
This was Adam West's first appearance in a film.Howard W. Koch and Aubrey Schenck's Bel-Air Productions signed Boris Karloff for a three-picture deal with Voodoo Island being the first one.
After being released theatrically by United Artists in 1957, the film was briefly re-titled Silent Death for its 1962 theatrical re-release.
On September 20, 2005, MGM (which owns United Artists) released Voodoo Island and The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake together in a DVD double bill, marking the date as the first time the film was ever released on any form of home-viewing media.
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