Friday, May 24, 2013

I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973)

United Artists
Directed by William Witney
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
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Jim Brown and Christopher George are prisoners on an isolated Caribbean island. For the first half of the movie they endure various forms of punishment and torture from their brutal captors. They escape by building a raft out of animal hides, float around on the ocean and end up on the mainland. They encounter a leper colony then a tribe of friendly natives while being pursued by the police. They eventually end up at a carnival in town where they escape by using fireworks. Excessively violent, but even worse excessively boring, film from Roger Corman and company, including a gratuitous real pig slaughter that got it banned in many countries.

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