Rent Air Hawks / Island of Doomed Men (1940)
3.1 of 5 from 47 ratings
2h 16min
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- Synopsis:
Two bone-chilling tales from the vaults of Columbia Pictures, starring a host of the classic horror genre's most celebrated names...
Air Hawks (1935)Barry Eldon (Ralph Bellamy) is the owner of an airline company that is competing with a rival company for a lucrative air-mail contract with the government. While the other company is bigger and more profitable than Barry's line, the rival owner has hired a scientist that has perfected a ray-machine that will cause airplanes that its ray is directed at to lose their engine power and crash. Thed government and the public are losing faith in Eldon's line before he, aided by Renee Dupont (Tala Birell), can find out what is causing his airplanes to crash.
Island of Doomed Men (1940)
Sadistic Stephen Danel (Peter Lorre) owns a penal island, and when he is not humiliating and mistreating his wife, he is torturing his convict prisoners and using them for slave labor. Government agent Mark Sheldon (Robert Wilcox) is sent to infiltrate the island and bring Danel to justice.- Actors:
- Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Wilcox, Don Beddoe, George E. Stone, Kenneth MacDonald, Charles Middleton, Stanley Brown, Earl Gunn, Sam Ash, Raymond Bailey, Trevor Bardette, Bruce Bennett, Bernie Breakston, Donald Douglas, Richard Fiske, William Gould, Chuck Hamilton, Howard C. Hickman, Al Hill
- Directors:
- Charles Barton, Albert S. Rogell
- Producers:
- Harry Cohn
- Writers:
- Robert Hardy Andrews, Griffin Jay, Grace Neville, Ben Pivar
- Aka:
- Air Fury / Dead Man's Isle
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 28/10/2024
- Run Time:
- 136 minutes
- Languages:
- English Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary on 'Air Hawks' with film historian Jeremy Arnold (2024)
- Audio commentary on 'Island of Doomed Men' with film historians Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson (2024)
- Darkness of the Morbid Brain (2024, 17mins): Jonathan Rigby, author of American Gothic: Six Decades of Classic Horror Cinema, looks at the life and career of the iconic performer Peter Lorre New York to Berlin in Twenty-Six Hours (1933, 2 mins): newsreel footage of aviator Wiley Post, who plays himself in 'Air Hawks'
- 'Air Hawks' image gallery
- 'Island of Doomed Men' image gallery
- World premiere of 'Air Hawks' on Blu-ray
- UK premiere of 'Island of Doomed Men' on Blu-ray