Captain Thorne Sherman, played by James Best, is a character in the 1959 film The Killer Shrews.
After Sherman arrives by boat to a secluded island to deliver supplies for Dr. Marlowe Cragis, he is urged to take Cragis' daughter Ann off the island immediately. Unfortunately a hurricane prevents their departure.
Before long Sherman learns that Dr. Cragis has performed well-meaning, yet disastrous experiments and now the island is overrun by bloodthirsty mutated giant shrews.
Sherman manages to escape with both Ann and Dr. Cragis.