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Women of Devil's Island
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Wikipedia article
'Women of Devil's Island' (, ) is a 1962 Italian-French adventure-drama film written and directed by Domenico Paolella and starring Guy Madison and Michle Mercier.
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 Lefvre and his abusive guards to pan gold for the French king Louis XVI of France and his Austrian queen Marie Antoinette.
Lefvre 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 Vallire and in league with the pirates, who in a daring coup help him steal the gold and overturn Lefvre's rule.
Cast
*Guy Madison as Henri Vallire
*Michle Mercier as Martine Foucher
* Federica Ranchi as Jeanette
* Marisa Belli as Melina
* Paul Muller as Lefvre
* Tullio Altamura as Dubois
* Antonella Della Porta as Louise
* Carlo Hintermann as Capt. Duval
* Gisella Arden as Maeva
* Fernando Piazza as Michael
* Margaret Rose Keil as Rosy
* Claudine Damon as Pauline
* Roldano Lupi
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", and in Germany under the title 'Frauen fr die Teufelsinsel' in a licensed limited edition with German and English audio.
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