The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
Practical Effects
That Krakatau eruption? Actually pretty solid for 1953.
Costume
Vera Ralston's leopard-print everything. Commitment to chaos.
Director
Joseph Kane
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vera Ralston was Republic Pictures' in-house star because she was married to studio head Herbert Yates. Nepotism never looked so leopard-print.
The real 1883 Krakatau eruption killed 36,000 people and lowered global temperatures for years. This movie uses it as a set piece for Fred MacMurray to look sweaty.
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