In 1916, A group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
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Le Bras
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Davert
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Jo-Jo
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Rosenquist
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In 1916, A group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
Plot Keywords:
guiana | escape | shot in the back | female full frontal nudity | sex scene |Taglines:
No man ever escaped this prison... UNTIL NOW! See more »Parents Guide:
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
September 1973 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Meuterei auf der Teufelsinsel See more »Filming Locations:
Acapulco, Guerrero, MexicoCompany Credits
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I remember in that multi flashback film Passage To Marseilles, Humphrey Bogart led a group of Devil's Island convicts with the clear purpose of escaping to fight for France even after the Nazis have taken it over. No such unity of purpose exists among four convicts who escape in 1916 to the mainland of French Guiana in I Escaped From Devil's Island. No talk here about going home to fight for France among the four who make it out. Perhaps they'd gotten word about Verdun.
The four in this film are Jim Brown, Christopher George, Rick Ely, and James Luisi. Other than Devil's Island isn't exactly a tropical paradise they all have different reasons for wanting to leave. George in fact is a political prisoner, an anti-war pacifist and he wants to continue to do his political thing. In a place as brutal as Devil's Island he learns that pacifism sometimes just doesn't cut it.
Ely's character is an interesting one, he's a gay man and in the all male Devil's Island he and his fellow gay prisoners are quite a premium, they're known as 'fancy boys' and command a lot for their services to relieve sexual tension among the prisoners. Still all that demand all that service leave Ely a bit on edge.
The brothers Corman did this film and befitting the locale and the subject there's a lot of erotic sadism. I Escaped From Devil's Island is trashy and exploitive, but still somewhat fun to watch.