Danger Island (film)
Danger Island | |
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Von Zerneck Sertner Films | |
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Network | NBC |
Release | September 20, 1992 |
Danger Island, also known as The Presence, is a 1992 made-for-television film.
Synopsis
People on a tropical island have to evacuate when the island erupts in a coup or civil war. With the main airport under military control, the Americans converge on an airstrip where Rick Pearsall runs an air transport service with his DC-3.
The plane flies through a violent storm and crashes into the ocean after it is struck by lightning. About half of the passengers manage to survive on one of the inflatable
They follow the road, but Rick starts having psychic
Rick leaves one night after more flashbacks. Laura, Ben, Matt, and Vic head out to search for him and soon encounter the island's indigenous tribe and are taken to their village. They spend the night, but Vic has a terrifying hallucination while trying to make out with a native woman and they quickly leave.
Diana deduces that the station was involved in research for a wide range of biological weapons, including extrasensory perception, as in Rick's case. Rick returns after visiting the village and finding a hut with research materials from a scientist with a conscience, who had sabotaged the station and taken an antigen with him.
Frank follows a trail the party had left for him to the research station. He breaks through the front door and terrifies the party. They fend him off using a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher. The search party returns from the village, whereupon they debate what to do about Frank. They decide to try to use the antigen elixir from the hut to cure Frank. Rick lures Frank into a walk-in freezer and injects him with the elixir. Frank mostly reverts to human form but dies moments later.
Rick is given the remainder of the elixir and improves, but he retains his extrasensory abilities, deducing from a brief touch that Laura is a model (which she's ashamed of being) and that Ben has been to the island before.
Cast
- Lisa Banes as Diana
- Richard Beymer as Ben
- María Celedonio as Melissa (as Maria Celedonio)
- Gary Graham as Rick
- Kathy Ireland as Laura
- Joe Lara as Matt
- Christopher Pettiet as Brian
- Beth Toussaint as Karen
- Eddie Velez as Vic
- Nikki Cox as Ariel
- June Lockhart as Kate
- Steve Goldsberry as Frank
- Ray Bumatai as Tupac
- Kimo Hugho as Chief
- Gina Maria Aurio as Linda
External links
- Danger Island at IMDb