The Hound of the Deep is a 1926 British–Australian silent drama film directed by Frank Hurley and starring Eric Bransby Williams, Lilian Douglas and Jameson Thomas.
Eventually Strong finds the pearl, defeats Darley and discovers romance with the daughter of an island trader.
[2] After the disappointing reception to his documentaries in America, Hurley decided to go into dramatic feature films.
He succeed in persuading the Australian-born British theatre magnate Sir Oswald Stoll to provide £10,000 and several actors and technicians to make two films in Papua and Thursday Island, this and Jungle Woman.
[3][4] Hurley and his crew left Sydney in August 1925 and travelled to Thursday Island where they shot The Hound of the Deep.