Adventure Island is a 1947 American South Seas action/adventure film shot in Cinecolor and directed by Sam Newfield (using the pseudonym Peter Stewart) for Paramount Pictures' Pine-Thomas Productions. This marked one of the few times in which Newfield worked for a major studio. The film stars Rory Calhoun and Rhonda Fleming .
10-402: Adventure Island may refer to: Media [ edit ] Adventure Island (film) , a 1947 Paramount film starring Rory Calhoun and Rhonda Fleming Adventure Island (TV series) , an Australian children's television series Adventure Island (video game) , a 1986 side-scrolling platform game produced by Hudson Soft, beginning the series of
20-482: A cargo boat. Paramount had previously filmed the story in 1922. In March 1937 they announced they would film the story again under the title of With the Tide starring Frances Farmer, and produced by Lucien Hubbard. Lloyd Osborne was writing the script and Hubbard wanted Henry Hathaway to direct. Paramount were going to make the film as one of its two color movies for the season. By April Paramount had decided to revert to
30-418: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Adventure Island (film) This film is a remake of the silent film Ebb Tide (1922) and the film Ebb Tide (1937), all based on the 1894 novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne . Three sailors and a woman roam an island ruled by a deadly tyrant. The film
40-547: The film is set in the South Seas and is based on the 1894 novel The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne . The novel was previously filmed as 1922 Paramount silent film Ebb Tide , and it was filmed again in 1947 as Adventure Island , produced by William H. Pine and William C. Thomas . In 1890, three Westerners stranded on a tropical island in the South Pacific get an offer to captain
50-709: The same name Adventure Island II , a side-scrolling platformer for Game Boy and sequel to Adventure Island Dragon's Curse , a 1989 TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine video game released in Japan as Adventure Island Places [ edit ] Adventure Island (amusement park) , a theme park in Southend-on-Sea, UK Adventure Island (water park) , a theme park in Tampa, Florida, US See also [ edit ] New Adventure Island Super Adventure Island Adventure Island: The Beginning Topics referred to by
60-429: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Adventure Island . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adventure_Island&oldid=1029520489 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
70-402: The script was rewritten to minimize indoor scenes. The owner of the boat used in the film later sued the producers for damaging it. In a contemporary review for The New York Times , critic A. H. Weiler compared the film negatively with the 1937 film Ebb Tide : "'Adventure Island' is a dull, incredible and slowly paced fiction of a very venerable school. Paramount's earlier version had
80-417: The services of Oscar Homolka , Barry Fitzgerald and Ray Milland as well as Technicolor and a professional script. 'Adventure Island' has Cinecolor , which is pleasant, and a script not nearly so pleasant." Ebb Tide (1937 film) Ebb Tide is a 1937 American Technicolor adventure film directed by James P. Hogan and starring Oscar Homolka , Frances Farmer and Ray Milland . Much of
90-583: The story's original title and Ray Milland had joined the cast with Hathaway to direct. Then Oscar Homolka , at the time best known for playing a role in Rhodes of Africa , signed a four-year contract with Paramount and was given a lead role in Ebb Tide . Barry Fitzgerald and Lloyd Nolan rounded out the main cast. Henry Hathaway was delayed on shooting Souls at Sea so he was replaced as director by James Hogan. Filming started June 1937. Island scenes were shot at
100-463: Was produced by Pine-Thomas Productions , which specialized in low-budget action films. However, the budget for this film was larger than that of most Pine-Thomas productions. Rory Calhoun and Rhoda Fleming were borrowed from David O. Selznick . Filming began in September 1946 on Santa Catalina Island . Ninety percent of the film was shot on the island in order to reduce the need for studio space, and
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