User Reviews

Talk about economy of storytelling -- In little over and hour, Dario escapes arrest during a heist only to go to Devil's Island posing as a guard in order to help his captured crime partner escape (who also happens to be the father of the woman he has secretly loved for years). The partner dies during the escape so Dario helps the partner's inmate/friend escape... only to have the woman throw Dario over for the escaped inmate! Dario wrestles with jealousy but ultimately goes back to Devil's Island -- this time as a prisoner! -- in order to allow the escapee to go off with his girl, happily ever after. And you thought Tale of Two Cities had the world's biggest sap?! Dario, is so deliriously clueless and relentlessly ineffective (the partner/dad dies, he loses the girl, winds up a prisoner) that, in spite of itself, the film becomes something of a grand testament to the delusions of machismo. You can't take your eyes off this film. The film-making is quite lavish, with solid direction and photography, and a swift pace. Unjustly forgotten and impossible to find. I own a 16mm print, which might be the only way to see it!

Grand storytelling in the old Hollywood style. What I mean by that is the film is a grand adventure but so contrived that only Hollywood attempt a plot such as that and actually get away with it.

Two secret agents for an unnamed country break into a French military base only to get caught. Well one gets caught and the other plots his escape from Devil's Island. Its all in the name of love since Victory Jory, who is the one not caught, loves the daughter of his friend. He then goes to the island as a guard in order to engineer an escape. What happens is the movie and a great adventure. It doesn't make a lick of real world sense at times, but the movie sells it and you really don't care.

This is one to track down.