Isle of Escape

Isle of Escape
likenesses of Monte Blue and Myrna Loy
Directed byHoward Bretherton
Written byJ. Grubb Alexander
Lucien Hubbard
Story byJack McLaren
Based onplay by Campbell Dixon
StarringMonte Blue
Myrna Loy
Betty Compson
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • March 1, 1930 (1930-03-01)
Running time
60 minutes (6 reels)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$281,000[1]
Box office$282,000[1]

Isle of Escape is a 1930 American pre-Code film produced and released by Warner Bros. The film stars Monte Blue and Myrna Loy and is set in the South Seas. Blue had been playing man-stranded-on-island roles in such films as White Shadows in the South Seas at MGM towards the end of the silent era and continued doing so in this early talkie.[2]

  1. ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 10 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  2. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Isle of Escape