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The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. The mismatched group must learn to get along and work together if they are to convince Taylor to let them borrow his boat and return to the main land.

Sinners in Paradise is a 1938 American south seas adventure film directed by James Whale and starring Madge Evans, John Boles, Bruce Cabot, Marion Martin and Gene Lockhart.

Plot
A passenger aircraft crashes in mid-Pacific and some of the survivors reach an island inhabited only by an American, Jim Taylor, with his Chinese servant, Ping. He declines to help them, telling them to build their own shelter and gather their own food and, though he has a boat and fuel, refusing to take them off. The reason why he wants to remain undisturbed, we learn, is that he is wanted for murder. In time his attitude to the intruders softens as they, despite endless bickering, manage to form a working community and he finds himself increasingly drawn to an attractive young nurse, Anne Wesson, who is running away from her husband. When the boat is prepared for a trip to civilization, two crooked businessmen from the party steal it with Ping on board. In a fight, he kills them both and, fatally wounded, brings the boat back. The rest can then escape.

Cast
Madge Evans as Anne Wesson
John Boles as Jim Taylor
Bruce Cabot as Robert Malone aka The Torpedo)
Marion Martin as Iris Compton
Gene Lockhart as Sen. Corey
Charlotte Wynters as Thelma Chase
Nana Bryant as Mrs. Franklin Sydney
Milburn Stone as Honeyman
Don ‘Red’ Barry as Jessup (as Donald Barry)
Morgan Conway as Harrison Brand
Willie Fung as Ping

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