Fog Island

Well done chiller starring George Zucco and Lionel Atwill. "Story revolves around a man once rich who had served a prison term for embezzlement, and his efforts to avenge not only his conviction but also the murder of his wife. On his foggy island estate for a weekend are gathered the group of men and women he suspects of having been responsible for his downfall. Other characters are there, including a former cellmate of the ex-convict, an escaped lifer who somehow turns up as the butler, the vengeful man's stepdaughter, and her college sweetheart. When the doings are over, all involved in the plotting and counterplotting had met their just deserts, and the sweethearts go back to the mainland presumably a happy couple.... Good acting is supplemented by smooth production combining to lift a murder story that's not too subtle into a picture that's above the mediocre." (Variety, April 11, 1945)