Mercy Island
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| Mercy Island | |
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| Directed by | William Morgan |
| Written by | Malcolm Stuart Boylan Theodore Pratt (novel) |
| Produced by | Armand Schaefer |
| Starring | Ray Middleton Gloria Dickson Otto Kruger |
| Cinematography | Reggie Lanning |
| Edited by | Ernest J. Nims |
| Music by | Walter Scharf (Music by-uncredited) Cy Feuer (music director) Mort Glickman (orchestrator-uncredited) Herman Hand (additional orchestrator-uncredited) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Republic Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Mercy Island is a 1941 American drama film directed by William Morgan and starring Ray Middleton, Gloria Dickson and Otto Kruger. It was nominated at the 14th Academy Awards, held in 1941, for Best Score of a Dramatic Picture, for which Walter Scharf and Cy Feuer received nominations.[1][2]
Plot
[edit | edit source]A young man takes his wife and a friend on a fishing trip to the Florida Keys on a boat owned by local Conks. Following a blow on the head when their boat hits a shallow bottom and loses its propeller, the husband becomes mentally unstable and believes his wife is having an affair.
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Ray Middleton as Warren Ramsey
- Gloria Dickson as Leslie Ramsey
- Otto Kruger as Dr. Sanderson
- Donald Douglas as Clay Foster
- Forrester Harvey as Captain Lowe
- Terry Kilburn as Wiccy
References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- Mercy Island at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Mercy Island at the TCM Movie Database
Categories:
- 1941 films
- 1941 drama films
- American black-and-white films
- American drama films
- Republic Pictures films
- Films scored by Walter Scharf
- Films set in Florida
- Films shot in Florida
- Films based on American novels
- Films directed by William Morgan (director)
- 1940s English-language films
- 1940s American films
- English-language drama films
- 1940s American drama film stubs
