Horror Island

Horror Island is a 1941 film about a down-on-his luck businessman who organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
 * Directed by George Waggner. Written by Maurice Tombragel and Victor McLeod, based on the short story "Terror of the South Seas" by Alex Gottlieb.

Professor Jasper Quinley

 * Oh, what are you all complaining about? This is exciting! It's adventure! Imagine: lost at sea... on the way to a haunted island... with a ghost castle. Well, one of us might even be murdered!

Other

 * Sergeant McGoon: Can somebody tell me why lobsters don't like beer?


 * Arleen Grady: This place gives me the heebie-jeebies! It reminds me of prison.


 * Panama Pete: [over the loudspeaker] Leave the castle... leave the castle!

Dialogue

 * Professor Jasper Quinley: [examining the treasure map] It's amazing, positively amazing!
 * Bill Martin: You mean it's on the level?
 * Professor Jasper Quinley: On the level? Do you mean authentic?
 * Stuff Oliver: Oh, what we want to know - is it real?


 * Bill Martin: [after a mysterious noise] Don't be frightened, folks. It's just Morgan's ghost. He resents our coming here.
 * Thurman Coldwater: No more than I do.


 * Panama Pete: There is treasure here. I can feel it in my bones.
 * Thurman Coldwater: That is your rheumatism.

Cast

 * Dick Foran — Bill Martin
 * Leo Carrillo — Tobias Clump
 * Peggy Moran — Wendy Creighton
 * Fuzzy Knight — Stuff Oliver
 * John Eldredge — George Martin
 * Lewis Howard — Thurman Coldwater
 * Hobart Cavanaugh — Professor Jasper Quinley
 * Walter Catlett — Sergeant McGoon
 * Ralf Harolde — Rod Grady
 * Iris Adrian — Arleen Grady
 * Foy Van Dolsen — Panama Pete/The Phantom
 * Emmett Vogan — The Stranger
 * Walter Tetley — Delivery Boy