Mercy Island
Appearance
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) |
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 that 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
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
- 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
- ^ "Mercy-Island - Cast, Crew, Director and Awards - NYTimes.com". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2014. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
- ^ "The 14th Academy Awards | 1942".
External links
- Mercy Island at IMDb
- Mercy Island at the TCM Movie Database
- Mercy Island at AllMovie
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
- 1940s drama film stubs