# Isle of Escape

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{{short description|1930 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name        = Isle of Escape
| image       = Isle_Of_Escape_1930_Poster.jpg
| caption     = likenesses of Monte Blue and Myrna Loy
| director    = [Howard Bretherton](/source/Howard_Bretherton)
| producer    = 
| based_on    = play by [Campbell Dixon](/source/Campbell_Dixon)
| story       = [Jack McLaren](/source/Jack_McLaren)
| writer      = [J. Grubb Alexander](/source/J._Grubb_Alexander)<br>[Lucien Hubbard](/source/Lucien_Hubbard)
| starring    = [Monte Blue](/source/Monte_Blue)<br>[Myrna Loy](/source/Myrna_Loy)<br>[Betty Compson](/source/Betty_Compson)
| studio      = [Warner Bros. Pictures](/source/Warner_Bros._Pictures)
| distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
| released    = {{Film date|1930|03|01}}
| runtime     = 60 minutes (6 reels)
| country     = United States
| language    = English
| budget      = $281,000<ref name="warners">{{Cite journal |date=January 1995 |title=Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1 |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01439689508604551 |journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television |language=en |volume=15 |issue=sup1 |pages=1–31 |doi=10.1080/01439689508604551 |issn=0143-9685|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
| gross       = $282,000<ref name="warners"/>
}}

'''''Isle of Escape''''' is a 1930 American [pre-Code](/source/Pre-Code_Hollywood) film produced and released by [Warner Bros. Pictures](/source/Warner_Bros._Pictures). The film stars [Monte Blue](/source/Monte_Blue) and [Myrna Loy](/source/Myrna_Loy) and is set in the South Seas. Blue had been playing man-stranded-on-island roles in such films as ''[White Shadows in the South Seas](/source/White_Shadows_in_the_South_Seas)'' at MGM towards the end of the silent era and continued doing so in this early talkie.<ref>[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=9967 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''Isle of Escape'']</ref>

==Plot==
Dave Wade, a young miner, manages to escape from some cannibals in the South Seas who have killed all of his companions. He arrives at the island of Samora with a bag of gold which he managed to save. Here he meets a brutal man named Shane and a woman named Stella, who had been forced into a secret marriage with Shane. The couple run a small hotel. Stella immediately sympathizes with Dave's plight, while Shane sets his greedy eyes on his gold. After the death of Stella's mother, Dave escapes with her to another island. Here they meet Moira, a native girl, who falls in love with Dave and desperately tries to divert his love away from Stella. Eventually, Shane discovers the whereabouts of his wife and arrives on the island.

==Cast==
*[Monte Blue](/source/Monte_Blue) as Dave Wade
*[Myrna Loy](/source/Myrna_Loy) as Moira
*[Betty Compson](/source/Betty_Compson) as Stella
*[Noah Beery, Sr.](/source/Noah_Beery%2C_Sr.) as Shane
*[Ivan F. Simpson](/source/Ivan_F._Simpson) as Judge
*Jack Ackroyd as Hank
*[Nina Quartero](/source/Nina_Quartero) as Loru
*[Duke Kahanamoku](/source/Duke_Kahanamoku) as Manua
*[Nick De Ruiz](/source/Nick_De_Ruiz) as Dolobe
*[Rose Dione](/source/Rose_Dione) as Ma Blackney
* [Adolph Milar](/source/Adolph_Milar) as Dutch Planter

==Music==
The film features a theme song entitled "My Kalua Rose" with music by Edward Ward and lyrics by Al Bryan. A song entitled "Let's Drink To The Isle We Love" which was composed by the same team is also featured on the soundtrack.

==Box office==
According to Warner Bros., the film earned $224,000 domestically and $58,000 foreign.<ref name="warners"/>

==Preservation status==
''Isle of Escape'' is believed to be a [lost film](/source/lost_film). Around 2010, a small fragment, running about forty seconds, was discovered by a private collector.<ref>''The American Film Institute Catalogue of Feature Films 1921-30'' c. 1971 by The American Film Institute</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0021003}}
* [http://www.movieposterdb.com/poster/cee9424b ''Isle of Escape'' lobby poster]
* [http://www.southseascinema.org/ Southseascinema.org]
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Category:1930 drama films
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