Jim Knight is the captain of a ship trading in the South Seas. He runs into trouble when he makes port at an island where crooks Malone and Ross hold the natives under their cruel domination while they seek a fortune in pearls. Knight and his crew are taken prisoners and he falls for native princess Mareva, and her non-plump charms are more than enough motivation for Knight to put an end to Malone and his henchmen, and also the greedy police commissioner Lamoret.
Hell Ship Mutiny 1957 HD | Adventure film directed by Lee Sholem and Elmo Williams | Jon Hall, John Carradine & Peter Lorre
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AN EXCITING STORY!.. Of Passionate Love…and High-Adventure in the South Pacific! Jon Hall, who starred in several exotic adventure-romances with Dorothy Lamour and Maria Montez in the thirties and forties, seems to have had a dual purpose in making this rather retro sarong film. One was to promote his new underwater movie equipment rental business (the plot provides for lots of shots of Jon and friends diving for pearls, engaging in underwater tussles, looking at fishies, etc.) The other was to express a love that dared not speak its name, at least to Dorothy or Maria. The lumpish Polynesian princess that’s Jon’s nominal love interest appears to take second place in his affections to a puckish little brown boy in an abbreviated paradise, and there’s a lot more buff male bodies on display on his island paradise than the expected female ones. As ever, however, the cutest item on display is Peter Lorre, in an all too brief comic turn as a visiting colonial circuit judge. Jon Hall, John Carradine, Peter Lorre, Mike Mazurki and Salty the Chimp
Hell Ship Mutiny is a 1957 American South Seas (genre) film directed by Lee Sholem and Elmo Williams starring Jon Hall (actor) who also produced and narrated the film. It is a compilation of a 1955 unsold television pilot Knight of the South Seas.
Plot summary
Captain Jim Knight, and his crew Roxy, Tula and a chimp named Salty sail the South Sea Islands in search of adventure. They discover a criminal gang has taken over a small island forcing the native pearl divers to dive beyond safe limits.
After capturing the three man gang, Knight takes them to Tahiti for trial where the men escape and force Knight to sail them to New Zealand. Knight subdues them again but this time a minor French magistrate is sent to the island to try them there. The magistrate joins the criminals when a native boy locates the wreck of a lost ship containing a Burmese King’s treasure.
Cast
- Jon Hall (actor) as Capt. Jim Knight
- John Carradine as Malone
- Peter Lorre as Commissioner Lamoret
- Roberta Haynes as Princess Mareva
- Mike Mazurki as Ross, chief henchman
- Charles Mauu as Tula, sailor
- Stanley Adams (actor) as Roxy, first mate
- Danny Richards Jr. as Tatoa, native boy
- Felix Locher as King Parea
- Peter Coe (actor) as Prince Terahi
- Michael Barrett as Pinky, Malone Henchman
- Salvador Baguez as Kuala
- Salty the Chimp as Salty
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