In the middle of the southern seas, as the rocky outcrops of that desolate island—where the shipwrecked have taken refuge—slowly succumb to the darkness of evening, the line between hunter and prey begins to blur. Directed by Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack, this thriller brings to the screen the suffocating nightmare of a man stranded at sea who becomes the prey. The eerie atmosphere created by the black-and-white imagery heightens the silence echoing through the depths of the forest and the footsteps of the approaching danger.