♦ Synopsis :

An aviator, Cormack, reunites with his former girlfriend, Janet, on the occasion of a very singular proposal. The latter indeed asks him to set up an operation in order to free her husband, currently imprisoned. But the main interested party, Eduardo Martin, refuses to leave his jail. He is convinced that his wife wants to kill him. The escape attempt is, in fact, a trap from which Cormack finds it difficult to escape. Once out of the woods, all that remains is to settle accounts with Janet. This one, Machiavellian, still has some surprises in store for him...

♦ Specification sheet :

Original title : HELL'S ISLAND
Genre : Film-Black
Duration : 1h24
Scenario : Maxwell Shane, from a story of Martin Goldsmith
Artistic director : Hal Pereira and Al Roelofs
Suits : Edith Head
Music : Miklós Rózsa
Photography : Lionel Lindon
Editing : Archie Marshek
Productor : William H. Pine and William C. Thomas
Production and distribution company : Pine-Thomas Productions - Paramount Pictures
Languages: English, Spanish
Format: Color (Technicolor) - Sound : Mono (Western Electric Recording) - Ratio : 1.85 : 1
Places : Las Vegas (Texas), Santo Rosario (Caraïbes) - Shooting : Los Angeles (Californie)

♦ Distribution :

JOHN PAYNE (Mike Cormack)
MARY MURPHY (Janet Martin)
FRANCIS L. SULLIVAN (Barzland)
EDUARDO NORIEGA (Insp. Peña)
ARNOLD MOSS (Paul Armand)
WALTER REED (Lawrence)
SÁNDOR SZABÓ (Johann Torbig)
PEPE HERN (Lalo)
ROBERT CABAL (Miguel)
PAUL PICERNI (Eduardo Martin)
ARGENTINA BRUNETTI (the potter)
RALPH DUMKE (a drunk at the Casino)
NACHO GALINDO (Carlos Peñasco)
JOSE GONZALES-GONZALES (a man in cockfight)
PAUL MARION (the jukebox seller)
LILLIAN MOLIERI (a girl at the jukebox)
ALEX MONTOYA (a cockfighting official)
PAUL REGAS (a penal colony guard)
MARIO SILETTI (a surgeon)

Customers at the Casino :

STEVE CARRUTHERS
SAYRE DEARING
BESS FLOWERS
KENNETH GIBSON
DICK GORDON
HAROLD MILLER
FORBES MURRAY
MONTY O'GRADY
MURRAY POLLACK