Review by planktonrules

I noticed all the reviews seem to like the film and gave it 7s. I have no idea why, as the story is slow, often pointless and features some serious overacting...which I blame on the director (if there actually was one).

Captain Jakob, Huish and Robert (Oscar Homalka, Barry Fitzgerald and Ray Milland) are beach bums with no prospects. Out of the blue, a guy offers Captain Jakob a ship. Once they board this awful ship, the Captain and Huish drink and act like idiots...leaving Robert to try to do something, though he knows nothing about ships.

Eventually these idiots stumble upon an uncharted island...which is fortunate since they just ran out of food. However, the island is run by a nasty jerk (Lloyd Nolan) and ultimately he kills a couple of them and everyone else, minus the homicidal jerk, leaves. The end.

So much of the movie seems as if the director was drunk and told the actors to just 'wing it'. Often directionless, slow and a film which is missing a LOT (particularly an ending) and left me annoyed. Very little to commend this film. Even the Technicolor was terrible on the copy I saw, as it was faded and in bad need of restoration. A choppy plot, too many periods where the acting is WAY over the top and a messy story make this one to skip.