Three men are wandering around in a swamp -- in the novel this is based on, it's Trinidad, even though the island is not named in the movie -- and come across an inhabited rise that no one knows of. They are killed. Some months later, the local police chief is complaining to the island's governor that the missing men obviously drowned in the swamp, but the oil company they worked for insisted on sending a private investigator. That man turns out to be James Dunn in this dull and telegraphed mystery movie
Dunn had been a star of Fox Films in the 1930s, a song-and-dance man teamed with Sally Eilers. His films, aside from three that made Shirley Temple a star, disappointed at the box office, and his tenure at Fox ended when the company merged with Zanuck's 20th Century Productions. He retreated to Poverty Row, but in 1945 Elia Kazan cast him in A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. It resulted in an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, this B movie, and then it was back to Poverty Row and the occasional small role in A pictures. He died in 1967 at age 65.
Dunn had been a star of Fox Films in the 1930s, a song-and-dance man teamed with Sally Eilers. His films, aside from three that made Shirley Temple a star, disappointed at the box office, and his tenure at Fox ended when the company merged with Zanuck's 20th Century Productions. He retreated to Poverty Row, but in 1945 Elia Kazan cast him in A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. It resulted in an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, this B movie, and then it was back to Poverty Row and the occasional small role in A pictures. He died in 1967 at age 65.