Women of Devil's Island

Women of Devil's Island (Italian: Le prigioniere dell'isola del diavolo, French: L'île aux filles perdues) is a 1962 Italian-French adventure-drama film written and directed by Domenico Paolella and starring Guy Madison and Michèle Mercier.[1][2]

Women of Devil's Island
Directed byDomenico Paolella
Produced byGianni Hecht Lucari
Written byDomenico Paolella
StarringGuy Madison
Michèle Mercier
Music byEgisto Macchi
CinematographyCarlo Bellero
Release date
  • 1962 (1962)
LanguageItalian

Plot

In the late 18th century, a group of French female convicts - among them streetwalkers, murderers, and revolutionaries - are shipped to Devil's Island penal colony. They join the other female convicts already on the island and are forced by the cruel Lefèvre and his abusive guards to pan gold for the French king Louis XVI of France and his Austrian queen Marie Antoinette.

Lefèvre hopes for a promotion, but a new prison governor arrives with a letter from the king and takes command, also putting in place a more humane prison regiment for the women. In reality, the letter is a fake. He is the revolutionary Henri Vallière and in league with the pirates, who in a daring coup help him steal the gold and overturn Lefèvre's rule.

Cast

Release

On DVD, the film has been released in the United States by Mill Creek Entertainment on 7 February 2006 as part of the "Drive-In Movie Classics 50 Movie Pack",[3] and in Germany under the title Frauen für die Teufelsinsel in a licensed limited edition with German and English audio.[4]

References
  1. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari (2007). Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 978-8884405036.
  2. Matt Blake (May 28, 2010). "Women of Devil's Island". The Wild Eye. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  3. www.amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Movie-Classics-Pack-Snowbeast/dp/B000AA4KLK/. Retrieved 22 March 2019. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. "Frauen für die Teufelsinsel (uncut)". Filmklassiker-uncut (in German). Retrieved 22 March 2019.


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