Island Of Lost Men (1939)

The daughter (Anna May Wong) of a general (Richard Loo) accused of embezzling $300,000 of government funds goes undercover to investigate his disappearance. This leads her to the sadistic commander (J. Carrol Naish) of a labor camp deep in the jungles of Singapore. Based on the play HANGMAN'S WHIP by Norman Reilly Raine and Frank Butler and directed by Kurt Neumann (THE FLY). The play was previously filmed in 1933 under the title WHITE WOMAN and this is a loose remake. The film was not a success and pretty much ended Wong's Hollywood career (she did only three films in the 1940s). It's a potboiler set in a Paramount sound stage jungle but still highly watchable, mainly because of Wong. With Anthony Quinn, Broderick Crawford, Ernest Truex and in a rare dramatic role, Eric Blore.