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Overview
Release Date:
1 September 1945 (USA) moreTagline:
What evil force is loose that empties graves of these long dead...buries those still alive...leaves behind it death...AND WORSE! (original half-sheet poster) morePlot:
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry... more | full synopsis (warning! may contain spoilers)Awards:
1 nomination moreUser Comments:
It's All Greek to Me! moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Boris Karloff | ... | Gen. Nikolas Pherides | |
| Ellen Drew | ... | Thea | |
| Marc Cramer | ... | Oliver Davis | |
| Katherine Emery | ... | Mrs. Mary St. Aubyn | |
| Helen Thimig | ... | Madame Kyra (as Helene Thimig) | |
| Alan Napier | ... | St. Aubyn | |
| Jason Robards Sr. | ... | Albrecht (as Jason Robards) | |
| Ernst Deutsch | ... | Dr. Drossos (as Ernst Dorian) | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Sherry Hall | ... | Col. Kobestes | |
| Erick Hanson | ... | Officer | |
| Skelton Knaggs | ... | Andrew Robbins | |
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71 minCountry:
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EnglishColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)MOVIEmeter: 
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The 19th century artist, Bocklin, painted "The Isle of the Dead." It appears in the credits of this film and is recreated in the sets. moreFAQ
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Boris Karloff heads a group of internationals quarantined on a small Greek island during the Balkan War of 1912. A plague has visited the island and forces a group of unlike people to stay together in order to not spread the plague. Karloff plays a misunderstood, rather austere Greek general known for his coldness. Others on the island include Jason Robards Sr. as a man who prays to the Greek gods of old, beautiful Ellen Drew as a serving woman thought to be a "Greek vampire" by an older superstitious Greek woman, Alan Napier and Katherine Emery as an aristocratic English couple, and several others. Karloff is wonderful in a role that has nothing to do with anything he had ever or would ever play. His face is a character of its own. The rest of the cast is very good too(Robards is a bit annoying, however). Drew is lovely. The real star of the film is the atmosphere created in the film. Director Mark Robson, under the production savvy of Val Lewton, creates a film reeking with eerie settings, a feeling of isolation and all-pervading doom, and a somewhat slow-pace that ordinarily might seem sluggish but under Robson's direction adds only to the mood.