"There's no escape... from his FIEND'S PARADISE of torture!" 20 May 1940 Drama, Thriller, Crime 67 mins
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
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Peter Lorre as Stephen Danel
Rochelle Hudson as Lorraine Danel
Robert Wilcox as Mark Sheldon
Don Beddoe as Brand
George E. Stone as Siggy
Kenneth MacDonald as Doctor Rosener
Charles Middleton as Captain Cort
Stanley Brown as Eddie
Earl Gunn as Mitchell
Sam Ash as Ames - Parolee (uncredited)
Raymond Bailey as Mystery Killer (uncredited)
Trevor Bardette as District Attorney (uncredited)
Bruce Bennett as Hazen - Guard (uncredited)
Bernie Breakston as Townsend (uncredited)
Donald Douglas as Department of Justice Official
Richard Fiske as Hale (uncredited)
Charles Barton Director
Robert Kalloch Costume Design
Lodge Cunningham Sound Recordist
Ben Oakland Music
Gregory Stone Music
Morris Stoloff Music Director
Robert Hardy Andrews Screenplay
Gerard Carbonara Original Music Composer
Benjamin H. Kline Director of Photography
James Sweeney Editor
Lionel Banks Art Direction
United Kingdom 21 July 1940
United States 20 May 1940
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Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.
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