Richard Basehart

This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.

An impoverished and naïve young woman, Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), is sold to a thuggish travelling entertainer, Zampanò (Anthony Quinn, The Don is Dead). The pair traverse the Italian countryside performing together.

Following his Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rogue, the great John Huston directed this adaptation of the Herman Melville classic.