
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).


“Lookout! Terror pays a visit to "Horror Island" and a hunt for buried treasure ...becomes the wierdest adventure...you ever shivered through! the phantom strikes and another victim!”
A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.

Dick Foran
Bill Martin

Leo Carrillo
Tobias Clump

Peggy Moran
Wendy Creighton

Fuzzy Knight
Stuff Oliver

John Eldredge
Cousin George

Lewis Howard
Thurman Coldwater

Hobart Cavanaugh
Professor Jasper Quinley

Walter Catlett
Sergeant McGoon

Ralf Harolde
Rod Grady

Iris Adrian
Arleen Grady
Horror Island is a mystery, comedy, horror film released in 1941 exploring themes of island, secret passage, phantom, treasure hunt, treasure map, murder. Directed by George Waggner, it stars Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Peggy Moran. A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
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