Ann Dexter (Rosemarie Bowe as Rosemarie Bowe), daughter of an itinerant Haiti waterfront character, Carl Dexter (Abner Biberman), brings a golden idol, which her father her stolen at a voodoo ceremony, to Bill Buchanan (John Agar), who is known along the waterfront as a man eternally on a treasure hunt. He agrees to let Ann accompany him in search of the treasure after a native he befriended gives him directions and certain voodoo secret charms. They follow an underwater passage to an island where they find a Pagan tribe. They learn that the golden idol is a burial symbol representing the dead and that hundreds of idols are at the bottom of the sacred burial lake.
from 16mm film transfer
Directed by Abner Biberman
1953 color 83 min
