King of the Damned
King of the Damned | |
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Directed by | Walter Forde |
Written by | Charles Bennett Sidney Gilliat |
Produced by | Michael Balcon |
Cinematography | Bernard Knowles |
Edited by | Cyril Randell |
Music by | Jack Beaver Louis Levy |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Gaumont British Distributors |
Release date |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
King of the Damned is a 1935 British prison film directed by Walter Forde and starring Conrad Veidt, Helen Vinson, Noah Beery and Cecil Ramage.
Plot summary
[edit]Convict 83 is a prisoner on an island, where the harsh regime of the Governor pushes him to lead a revolt.[1]
Cast
[edit]- Conrad Veidt - Convict 83
- Helen Vinson - Anna Fernandez
- Noah Beery - Convict 98
- Cecil Ramage - Major Montez
- Edmund Willard - The Greek
- Percy Parsons - Lumberjack
- Peter Croft - Boy convict
- Raymond Lovell - Captain Torres
- C. M. Hallard - Commandant
- Allan Jeayes - Doctor Prada
- Percy Walsh - Captain Perez
- Gibson Gowland - Priest
- Lucius Blake
Production
[edit]To avoid the usual French protests on films depicting Devil's Island, the producers gave all locations Spanish names and set the film in the Caribbean.[2]
References
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