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Cast out of society on an island in the South Seas, Herrick (Rory Calhoun),
Donald (Paul Kelly) & Huish (John Abbott) are thrown into prison for
stealing a pig, & await to be sent to the penal colony - but instead,
Donald, a ship's captain fallen from grace, gets offered a new command, &
he takes his two friends with him.
However, once on the high sea, Donald & Huish decide to alter the ship's
route & instead of bringing their cargo safely to Sydney they want to take
it to Peru to sell both ship & cargo for their own benefit. Reluctantly,
even good guy Herrick agrees to the plan since he owes Donald his life.
Only Faith (Rhonda Fleming), daughter of the former deceased captain &
heiress of the ship opposes the plan, even at gunpoint, but in fact she can do
only very little since Donald is the only one aboard who knows how to navigate
the ship. But Donald & Huish soon prove to be raving alcoholics & as
a consequence of one of their drinking sessions they almost burn down the ship
... For Donald that means sobering up & try to stay that way, but Huish
is unwilling to kick the habit, & aoon gets his hands on the ship's cargo,
which consists of hundreds of crates containing champagne bottles. Only, the
bottles do not contain champagne but water ... & why is there inflammatory
acid aboard the ship as well ? As it turns out, Faith's father was planning
some insurance fraud (without Faith's knowledge), but died before he could get
through with it. As a result, the ship is now sailing the high seas without any
actual cargo ... & the provisions are coming to an end as well ... Out of
pure luck an uncharted island shows up, & Herrick, Donald & Huish go
ashore, for both the needed provisions and the pearls they expet to find. But
once on the island they have to realize it is not at al deserted but inhabited
by a tribe of natives & their cultivated but quite mad white ruler Attwater
(Alan Napier), who has made the natives believe that he is God after he saved
them from the bulbonic plague. Our trio soon falls out with Attwater &
they decide to leave the island, if necessary without provisions (though Donald
& Huish still want to get the pearls, which Attwateer has collected over
the years), but then Faith shows up, & Attwater is quite charmed by the
girl & decides to keep her in exchange for provisions. Huish makes up a
plan though involving the acid found aboard the ship & a champagne bottle
to get rid of Attwater for good, but Attwater smells the beef & the
champagne bottle full of acid explodes into Huish's own face. Only the combined
efforts of Herrick & Donald can finally get rid of Attwater, & prove to
his natives that he is no god, but it costs Donald his life. & Herrick
& Faith can sail away into the sunset as lovers (despite the fact that none
of them knows how to navigate the ship) ... A charmingly trashy
adaptation of the novel Ebb Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd
Osbourne that this way manages to escape the heavy handedness more lavish
adaptations of classic novels often fall prey to. Apart from that though,
Adventure Island is a rather unremarkable little film.
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