Adventure Island (film)

Adventure Island is a 1947 American South Seas action/adventure film shot in Cinecolor and directed by Sam Newfield (using the pseudonym Peter Stewart) for Paramount Pictures' Pine-Thomas Productions. This marked one of the few times in which Newfield worked for a major studio. The film stars Rory Calhoun and Rhonda Fleming.

Adventure Island
Theatrical poster
Directed bySam Newfield as "Peter Steward"
Screenplay byMaxwell Shane
Based onThe Ebb Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson
Produced byWilliam H. Pine
William C. Thomas
StarringRory Calhoun
Rhonda Fleming
Paul Kelly
John Abbott
Alan Napier
CinematographyJack Greenhalgh
Edited byHoward A. Smith
Music byDarrell Calker
Production
company
Pine-Thomas Productions
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • August 13, 1947 (1947-08-13)
Running time
66 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$250,000-$300,000

This film is a remake of the silent film Ebb Tide (1922) and the film Ebb Tide (1937), all based on the 1894 novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.

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