A desert island, a mansion, a hostage situation—and someone catches feelings? Chaos.
On the run from the police, a female thief and her band of robbers take refuge on a desert island where they discover a mansion inhabited by a family whom they take hostage. One of the robbers falls for the couple's daughter.
Cinematography
Desert island location work creates genuine isolation and heat-haze unease.
Acting
Martine Carol's weary thief anchors the ensemble with fatalistic glamour.
Director
John Ainsworth
Martine Carol
Martine Grant
Anthony Steel
Major Morton
James Robertson Justice
Angus McGee
Shirley Anne Field
Shirley McGee
Isa Miranda
Isa Grant
Carl Möhner
Carl Schultz
Jess Conrad
Jess Shepherd
Anthony Dawson
Paul Grant
Catherine Schell
Catherine Grant
Irene von Meyendorff
Helen McGee
Anna Gaël
Anna
Eugene Deckers
Counsel
Sheila Burrell
Judge
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Martine Carol was a major French star whose career declined sharply in the 1960s; this British-Italian co-production was among her final leading roles.
The film adapts a Jean-Paul Sartre concept—'hell is other people'—into literal island isolation, trapping criminals and bourgeois family together to destroy each other.
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