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19-410: One of hundreds of Paramount films held in limbo by Universal Studios, Universal gained ownership of Paramount features produced between 1929 and 1949. Paramount remade the film in 1939 as Island of Lost Men , with Anna May Wong , J. Carrol Naish and Broderick Crawford in the roles originated by Lombard, Laughton and Bickford. It was directed by Kurt Neumann . Judith Denning, a young widow, makes

38-426: A disgruntled employee. Now realizing his position is hopeless, he plays a game of poker with Ballister, his last remaining ally. The Malays close in and kill Ballister with a blowgun. Prin chastises Ballister for dying while Prin had a royal flush , and raves that he will always be "king of the river". He steps out onto the balcony and is killed by Malay spear-throwers. Island of Lost Men Island of Lost Men

57-506: A living as a cafe singer in Malaysia. The colonial authorities threaten her with deportation for indecency, but she has nowhere else to go. Judith has a chance meeting with wealthy but lonely rubber plantation owner Horace Prin, who she agrees to marry in order to escape deportation. Judith travels inland to Prin's plantation, where she discovers the Malay workers are poorly treated and ill-fed, while

76-535: A plantation run by Gregory Prin north of Singapore . There she meets Chang Tai, who is an undercover Chinese secret service agent investigating Prin's activities. Together they manage to find Ling's father and the money. Prin's partner, Tex Ballister arrives, demanding his half of the $ 300,000. He reveals Tai's and Ling's true identities to Prin. After the death of several of Prin's henchmen a native tribe rebellion ignites, allowing Ling, her father, and Tai to escape, while Prin and Ballister are killed. Island of Lost Men

95-731: A solid music and theatre family background: his uncle Gustav was director of the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, and his uncle Felix Hollaender was a well-known novelist and drama critic, who later worked with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater . In 1899 Hollaender's family returned to Berlin . His father began teaching at the Stern Conservatory, where his son became a student in Engelbert Humperdinck 's master class. In

114-450: A trade deal, but Prin arrogantly insults them. The Malays declare war. The upriver posts are the first to be attacked, and David narrowly escapes through the jungle to Prin's headquarters. Judith and David escape downriver together after Ballister foils Prin's attempts to sabotage their boat. Prin surveys his abandoned plantation. He remains confident that he can defend his plantation until he discovers his hidden defenses have been destroyed by

133-452: Is a 1939 American crime film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Anna May Wong and J. Carrol Naish . It tells the story of the daughter of a general who goes to look for her father after he disappears. The film received mixed reviews and was the last that Wong made for Paramount Pictures . Kim Ling, the daughter of a general accused of embezzling $ 300,000 of Chinese government money, investigates his disappearance. She follows clues to

152-690: The Großes Schauspielhaus or the Wilde Bühne led by Trude Hesterberg at the Theater des Westens in Charlottenburg , where he established the Tingel-Tangel-Theater cabaret in 1931. In 1919 he married the actress Blandine Ebinger ; the couple divorced in 1926. Their daughter Philine later became the wife of the cabarettist Georg Kreisler . Hollaender had his final breakthrough when he wrote

171-782: The Nuremberg Laws . He divorced Elizabeth Hollander in 1946 in Los Angeles. In 1956 he returned to Germany and again worked for several years as a revue composer at the Theater Die Kleine Freiheit in Munich. He made a cameo appearance in Billy Wilder 's film comedy One, Two, Three (1960) as a Kapellmeister leading a dance band and singing the German vocals to the song Yes! We Have No Bananas . Hollaender died 1976 in Munich and

190-561: The U.S. State Department implored studios to avoid referencing or alluding to the then-ongoing Second Sino-Japanese War . After discussion with its sales manager in Japan, Paramount Pictures changed the title to Island of Lost Men . Wong sang "Music on the Shore", composed by Friedrich Hollaender and Frank Loesser . The song was written especially for her. Island of Lost Men received its American release on August 16, 1939. Critical reception

209-455: The British Army who has been trapped working for Prin. They announce their intention to run away together but are easily cowed by Prin. David is reassigned to a position upriver. Prin's domination is upset by the arrival of Ballister, a strong-willed American hired to replace Hambly. He openly defies Prin and makes sexual advances towards Judith. One day, Malay chieftans visit Prin to negotiate

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228-555: The budget overruns in Island . Friedrich Hollaender Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander ; 18 October 1896 – 18 January 1976) was a German film composer and author. He was born in London to a Jewish family, where his father, operetta composer Victor Hollaender , worked as a musical director at the Barnum & Bailey Circus . Young Hollaender had

247-776: The evening he played the piano at silent film performances in local cinemas, developing the art of musical improvisation . By the age of 18 he was employed as a répétiteur at the New German Theatre in Prague and also was put in charge of troop entertainment at the Western Front of World War I. Having finished his studies, he composed music for productions by Max Reinhardt and became involved in Berlin's Kabarett scene. Together with Kurt Tucholsky , Klabund , Walter Mehring , Mischa Spoliansky and Joachim Ringelnatz he worked in venues like Reinhardt's Schall und Rauch ensemble at

266-732: The film score for The Blue Angel (1930), including the most popular song " Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It) ", performed by Marlene Dietrich . He later married Leza Lidow . He had to leave Nazi Germany in 1933 because of his Jewish descent and first moved to Paris. He emigrated to the United States the next year, where he wrote the music for over a hundred films, including Destry Rides Again (1939), A Foreign Affair (1948), The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953 Academy Award nomination) and Sabrina (1954). Many of his songs were again made famous by Marlene Dietrich. He can be seen as

285-466: The movie is that Naish is in it, "only this time with a slant to Mr. Naish's villainous eyes", and that the jungle setting was so unbelievable that it implied that "if the camera were swung no more than a frame or so to either side it would reveal a filling station, or a roadside food dispensary in the shape of a hot dog". Island of Lost Men proved to be Wong's last film with Paramount. The studio did not renew her contract afterwards, possibly because of

304-476: The piano accompanist in A Foreign Affair (on the songs, "Black Market", "Illusions" and "Ruins of Berlin"). He received four Academy Award nominations for composition. As "Frederick Hollander", he also wrote the semi-autobiographical novel Those Torn From Earth , released in 1941, which details the flight from Germany that many Jewish members of the film industry embarked on after the Nazis came to power and instituted

323-407: The white foremen are fugitives coerced into working far from the reach of the law. Prin acts as a tyrant, subjecting his subordinates to his capricious whim and cruel sense of humor. One of the foremen, Hambly, attempts to escape downriver. He is killed by Malay tribesmen hired by Prin, a fate shared by previous escapees. Judith quickly comes to resent Prin. She falls in love with David, a deserter from

342-410: Was filmed in early 1939. Production was delayed by cost overruns of approximately $ 25,000. Among the most expensive scenes were those involving the jungle and the river scene. Wong's salary was $ 6,000 with another $ 1,000 paid for overtime, while Quinn only earned $ 750. The film is a loose remake of the 1933 Paramount film White Woman . The original title for the film was Guns for China . However,

361-411: Was mixed. Variety praised the general production, acting (especially Wong's), and sets; however, it considered the plot to be "trite". The Daily Variety noted that Wong's singing was "pleasing". The British trade paper Kinematograph Weekly was dismissive of the film, but appreciative of Wong's acting. Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times wrote that the "kindliest" thing one could say about

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