King of the Damned
Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that.
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“Earnest political allegory” “One of the best” “Charismatic Conrad steals the show” (IMDB reviews quotes). A prison drama with political overtones in which Conrad Veidt leads a rebellion against a cruel warden. Good Anglo-Germen-American cast and good production values. Unfortunately they the weren’t enough. Its financial failure was Gaumont's death knell as an independent British production company. IMDB rating 6.2. Walter Forde. Released in 1935. Complete print but with marginal image quality.
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- Director
- Walter Forde
- Starring
- Conrad Veidt, Helen Vinson, Noah Beery, Cecil Ramage, Edmund Willard, Percy Parsons, Peter Croft, Raymond Lovell
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