Do you want to watch a movie where Peter Lorre is a slave master on a tiny independent Island.
Do you also want to see Robert Wilcox plays a prisoner on that island with connections to a vague government institution that only refers to him as agent 64?
And have the whole thing woven in with a strange love triangle involving Rochelle Hudson.
Well so would I.
Unfortunately with only an hour and 7 minutes we just don't have enough time to really play out all those scenarios.
We have this whole government spy ring involving agent 64 but most of that thrown out the window in the first 10 minutes.
The guy gets framed for murder and then spends several months if not years in prison. When he's then put on parole by the very guy who set up the murder and then plucked onto a specialty Island where he is worked and tortured nearly to death. All so Peter Lorre's character can find out about the secret organisation that's trying to shut him down.
You'd think we might be able to do more with that but we just don't get anything.
As mentioned above there is a love triangle and even that doesn't have much setup, as it's pretty much just Peter Lorre staring down his wife and threatening to either kill Smith (that's the guy who is Agent 64) or possibly even kill he's wife because he's kind of a Maniac who wants to control everything he possesses.
Honestly there's a whole whack of story that probably could have been developed if given more time but with what we get here it's just a standard break out of prison story. Where the man runs through a few forest set before inevitably being caught and then escaping again in an attempts to free himself from the island. Which we never technically see him do.
Overall it's Unforgettable experience. I thought maybe Peter Lorre would be fun to watch but is acting as just kind of bear.
At first it was a little interesting given his mysterious background and dour look that put the fear of God into any man working beneath him but as the movie goes on you just don't see anything happen. You're stuck with this guy and just kind of loaves around an island collecting diamonds with seemingly no purpose. He might as well just invested in the stock market and manipulated the system with inside training. He would have done the same Financial power only without the slavery.
Hell if we want a little taste of real America he could have just invested in an actual prison system and become the warden of what would have practically been the exact same setup.
Except the slavery would have been legal and the government probably would have promoted his business not try to shut them down.
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