Sinners in Paradise 1938 (Drama, Romance) Madge Evans, John Boles, Bruce Cabot

A seaplane departs for China.
On board are a nurse escaping a loveless marriage to do work with refugees, a woman hoping to surprise her estranged son, a wealthy heiress trying to distance herself from labor troubles, an oily politician, a moll and a mobster fleeing the wrath of the gangs they've double-crossed, two rival munitions salesmen out to cash in on the misery of war, and a fresh-faced young steward. Are caught in a course-altering storm, a crash-landing destroys the plane, kills the plane's officers, and tosses the surviving passengers into the sea. They are washed ashore on an isolated island inhabited solely by mysteriously reclusive Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. Until Taylor decides if, how and when he will allow them to take his boat back to China for help, this disparate band must work together, change their self-centered ways, and examine their motives for wanting to escape from the island and their pasts.

Original title: Sinners in Paradise (1938)
This film is subtitled in many languages.

Director: James Whale
Writers: Lester Cole , Harold Buckley
Stars: Madge Evans, John Boles, Bruce Cabot
Genres: Classics, Adventure, Drama, Romance

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[resetthis]

A lot of Sinners movies back then... I take it sinners was like a 30's code term for people who liked to live it up and generally have a good time.

[solomonoverhead]

Gilligan's Island before Gilligan's Island🏖🏝

[xybcmsc]

I always enjoy rewatching this one, some of these old movies are just great entertainment..even after all of these years! Thanks for downloading this one for us!

[carmenfoote]

Haven't seen this before and it wasn't too bad. Did remind me of Gilligan's Island though. Well worth watching again. Thanks for posting it. Joe S

[zanti]

Realtively short adventure / romance flick. Lots of action, character studies and very good acting. the director did a whale of a job. Mucho entertaining. Some say it went by too fast. I could have stood another half hour easy. TY CCC. Great chat gang. 3.5 ⭐s. 🤩

[frankfowlkes]

Interesting how as the plane is taking off people are still walking around in the cabin.

[oliviasimonich]

Forget logic and just enjoy the movie! Amazing storm graphics BTW, esp for 1938.

[jamesmiller]

I like BOTH the B&W and the Colorized versions, each being rather a different experience.
Combine the glass half-empty with the one half-full, and you've got it all !!

[LIZZIE-lizzie]

Walter Brennan had a movie series back in the '30s where he was a Captain of the high seas. One of the series was exactly this - they get stranded on a desert island. At first I thought Walter Brennan was in this -
Nice upload

[pinstripedynasty]

Underrated film by the great James Whale

[miker]

I bet Pan American Airways loved this movie.

[johnrudy]

Was waiting for it to turn into The Most Dangerous Game.

[lesawilkes]

Entertainment, plain ole black and white fun. The sea plane was as big as a luxury train on the inside, must have had a nice bathtub, they all changed for dinner!

[PAPITO_]

A good old fashioned south seas movie.

[zrzvsxy]

James Whale!! My favorite, !! Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and so many others!!

[glenbirbeck]

At 11:40 the navagator gives an erronious position. He says west instead of east. The position he radio'd was between Hawaii and the US mainland...not 700 miles north of Guam. Someone who knew a little bit wrote or edited the script, very plausable. Still, the searchers would know the clipper had flown west from Hawaii and the position must have switched east and west. Eight years after the movie was made hundreds of B29 bombers would pass this point, half way to their bombing mission over Tokyo. These movies are more interesting if you know the history, the context.

[NancySanders-omic]

A very young Milburn Stone telephoning.

[daveallen]

It was a good watch, not much of a story really but entertaining.

[lonasimpresasmonterrey]

The only thing missing from the plane was Tom Hank and Wilson.

[xwtw]

>If you can't wait you could always watch the upload from 2021