Forbidden Island (1959)
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Directors
Charles B. Griffith
Cast
John Farrow, Jon Hall, Jonathan Haze
The story
A freelance frogman (Jon Hall) is hired by a psychotic treasure hunter to recover an emerald that went down in a shipwreck.
Genres
treasure hunt film
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