Lure of the Islands

• Director: Jean Yarbrough
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Mystery
• Movie Type: Crime Thriller, Detective Film
• Release Year: 1942
• Country: US
• Run Time: 61 minutes

Plot

Billed as "The Girl who Stopped a Thousand Shows" and "The Poor Man's Garbo," burlesque dancer Margie Hart made her feature film debut in this ultra low-budget World War II romance. In an attempt to determine whether fifth columnists are persuading the natives to work for the Japanese, American government agents Robert Lowery and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams arrive on the tropical island of Tanukai. Befriending two beautiful island girls (Hart and Gale Storm), our heroes trudge through the jungle hotly pursued by a Nazi saboteur (Ivan Lebedeff) and several downed Japanese pilots (one of whom is played by an actor named Angel Cruz!). ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

Cast

John Bleifer; Angel Cruz; Margie Hart; Warren Hymer; Ivan Lebedeff; Robert Lowery; Jerry Sheldon; Gale Storm; Kam Tong; Guinn "Big Boy" Williams; Grant Withers; Satini Puailoa

Credit

Jean Yarbrough - Director, Jack W. Ogilvie - Editor, Edward Kay - Musical Direction/Supervision, Mack Stengler - Cinematographer, Lindsley Parsons - Producer, George Bricker - Screenwriter, Scott Littleton - Screenwriter, Ed Kelso - Screenwriter