Ebb Tide (1937) DVD-R

Starring Oskar Homolka, Frances Farmer, Ray Milland, Lloyd Nolan, Barry Fitzgerald
Directed by James P. Hogan

Print: black/white
Runtime: 94 min.
Genre: adventure
Print Quality: B

Technicolor is the main attraction of this overheated South Seas adventure. Ray Milland,
Akim Tamiroff and Barry Fitzgerald play three shifty sailors who commandeer a
smallpox-ridden boat and set out to sea. A typhoon washes them ashore on a faraway
Pacific island, which is ruled by a white religious fanatic (Lloyd Nolan) who has set himself
up as the local god. The three sailors anxiously await an opportunity to appropriate the
"god's" valuable stash of pearls and head for the mainland. Only one of the sailors escapes
to tell his story; check out the cast list and guess which one survives. The third filmization of
Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osborne's novel, Ebb Tide is rough going until Lloyd Nolan
shows up to deliver the picture's best and subtlest performance.