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Forbidden Island is a 1959 American adventure crime film directed by Charles B. Griffith starring Jon Hall. It was his debut as director, although he had directed second unit on Attack of the Crab Monsters. A young Don Preston from the Mothers of Invention appeared in this film.

Forbidden Island
Directed byCharles B. Griffith
Story byCharles B. Griffith
Jonathan Haze
Produced byCharles B. Griffith
StarringJon Hall
CinematographyGilbert Warrenton
Edited byJerome Thoms
Music byAlexander Laszlo
Color processColumbiaColor
Production
company
Columbia Pictures
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • February 10, 1959 (1959-02-10) (United States)
Running time
66 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$90,000[1]

Plot


A freelance frogman (Jon Hall) is hired by a psychotic treasure hunter to recover an emerald that went down in a shipwreck.


Cast



Production


Griffith had signed with Columbia under a five-film writer-producer-director contract; he ended up only making two of them, the other being Ghost of the China Sea, which he did not direct.

"They were really terrible," he recalled later. "It stopped me for twenty years from ever directing again. They were really rank. You see, I got chicken and started to write very safely within a formula to please the major studios, and of course, you can't do that."[2]

The film was shot mostly on location in Hawaii.[3] Filming started November 4, 1957.[4] Photos have been found in the archives of Silver Springs State Park, Florida, indicating that some scenes were filmed there. Rebecca Welles was originally cast in the lead role but had to pull out and was replaced by Nan Adams.[5]

"I had an early chance to direct but was too dumb to know that I had to work with the editor," Griffith said later. "They told me I had an Oscar-winning editor; I told them we needed an Oscar-winning firestarter."[1]

The two films were meant to cost $150,000. Forbidden Island was meant to be filmed in ten days but Griffith went over schedule. According to Variety "Columbia noted that Griffith seemed to be having continuing production difficulties" and sent out one of its contract directors, Fred Sears, to direct the second movie.[6]


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