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      Sinners in Paradise

      1938 1h 5m Drama List
      Reviews A runaway wife (Madge Evans), a fugitive (Bruce Cabot) and other plane-crash survivors find a hermit's (John Boles) island. Read More Read Less Watch on Prime Video Stream Now

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      Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Though the story is trite, Whale keeps it lurid enough to hold one's interest. Rated: B May 29, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Sinners in Paradise Starring: John Boles, Madge Evans, Bruce Cabot, Milburn Stone, Willie Fung, and Gene Lockhart Director: James Whale When a plane bound for China crashes in the South Sea, the surviving passengers--a motly group of killers, criminals, and the criminally annoying--are stranded on an uncharted island. They soon discover they aren't alone, but that the mysterious Mr. Taylor (Boles) and his Chinese servant Ping (Fung) are already living there... shunning civilization for reeasons of their own. "Sinners in Paradise" is a movie that time has passed by. Not only is it a story that I've seen done far, far better (Will Eisner told this type of story several times in his "Spirit" comic strip, and although he may have been drawing inspiration partly from Whale's picture, his tales are better), but the dramatic portions of the story come across as eye-rollingly stupid to contemporary audiences. This film was far from James Whale's finest work. None of the creativity that was so evident in the productions of "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein" or "Showboat" can be seen here. Although this film probably had a budget far smaller than any of those other films, it still would have been nice to see [i]something[/i] that was a little beyond "get the shot and move on." Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member A bit hokey but still entertaining. The cast is decent, Gene lockhart comes off as the most professional. Cheaply made "B" film, but that isn't nevessarily a negative. Look at M Night Shyamalon, he gets huge budgets and makes films worse than this. They did a lot with the budget and it held my interest. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A runaway wife (Madge Evans), a fugitive (Bruce Cabot) and other plane-crash survivors find a hermit's (John Boles) island.
      Director
      James Whale
      Production Co
      James Whale Productions, Universal Pictures
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jul 15, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 5m
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