The Golden Mistress

Plot Summary

Ann Dexter, daughter of an itinerant Haiti waterfront character, Carl Dexter, brings a golden idol, which her father her stolen at a voodoo ceremony, to Bill Buchanan, 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.

Top Cast

John Agar Bill Buchanan

Rosemarie Stack Ann Dexter

Abner Biberman Carl Dexter

André Narcisse Iznard, Dombala Houngan

Jacques Molant Ti Flute