The Golden Mistress (1954)

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