The Live Wire is a 1935 American adventure film directed and produced by Harry S. Webb[1] for Reliable Pictures, starring stuntman Richard Talmadge[2] in the lead role.

They track down Dick Nelson (Richard Talmadge), the sailor who sold it after finding it on an island where he was shipwrecked as a boy.

Professors Sneed (Henry Roquemore) and Harris (Jimmy Aubrey) charter a ship to have Dick guide them to find more ancient treasures on this uncharted island; but they do not want Captain King (Charles K. French) to bring his daughter Madge (Alberta Vaughn), who usually sails with him, saying it will be too dangerous for a woman to go with them.

It looks like Dick and Madge, with the help of Sam and the others, are going to foil the mutineer’s plan; but the ship is lost in a fire, and, unbeknownst to each other, they all end up shipwrecked on the mysterious island.

[4] Although a Reliable Pictures release, much of it was filmed on existing sets at Universal, and footage from the 1934 serial Pirate Treasure was reused.