Isle of Forgotten Sins

Isle of Forgotten Sins is an American South Seas adventure film released on August 15, 1943 by PRC, with Leon Fromkess in charge of production, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer also credited with original story and featuring topbilled John Carradine and Gale Sondergaard whose performance in one of 1936s Academy Award for Best Picture nominees, Anthony Adverse, earned her the first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Somewhere on one of the Englishspeaking South Sea Islands, at an indefinite present time, with no mention of the fact that it is the middle of World War II, Marge Gale Sondergaard is the proprietress of a nightclubrestaurantgambling hallbrothel called Isle of Forgotten Sins. In the morning, she knocks on the doors of the individual rooms of her sleeping hostesses, Olga Betty Amann, Bobbie Patti McCarty, Mimi Marian Colby and Christine Tala Birell announcing, get up, the Southern Queen is here. Riding in a launch from the ship is an inspector from the Criminal Investigation Bureau who compares a fingerprint card with a photograph of Betty Nelson to one with a photo of a somewhat older Marge Williams, shows it to the commissioner unbilled C. Montague Shaw and tells him, well go there tonight. Marge, surrounded by eight hostesses, is asked by one, what can we do to please him? and answers, he doesnt want to be pleased, hes looking for an excuse to close us up. As the sarongclad girls leave, one of them, Diane Rita Quigley tells Marge, oh, I suppose its silly of me but I feel so selfconscious in this costume and Marge responds, I know how it is when your modestys taking a beating, dont let it get you down.On a small boat moored in the harbor, its owner, deep sea diver Jack Burke Frank Fenton, is shaving in preparation of visiting Marges place, while his diving partnerfriendly rival Mike Clancy John Carradine awakens from drunken sleep to find that Burke has tied him to the bunk bed. He offers to pay for drinks if Burke unties him, but Burke wants to see the cash first. Clancy tells him that its in his pocket, so Burke reaches in, takes all of it, and leaves without untying him, as Clancy shouts angrily and struggles to loosen the bonds. ........

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