Hero's Island
It stars James Mason, Neville Brand, Kate Manx, Rip Torn, Warren Oates and Brendan Dillon.[1][2] The film, set in the early 18th century, is about a poor family homesteading on a remote Carolina island, leading to encounters with seagoing vagabonds, good and bad.It was filmed on location on California's Santa Catalina Island, which is much hillier and more arid than any actual part of the coastal Carolinas.In 1718 a recently freed family of indentured workers inherits the small uninhabited Bull Island off the Carolina coast.The conflict over the island escalates as more people including a castaway, a fugitive from justice, and hired heavies join each side.