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Written by James M. Tate / 9/12/2018 / No comments / adventure , drama , indie , jack donner , jazz-score , linda scott , mark stevens , neo noir , shark , sixties , thriller

MARK STEVENS WITH JACK DONNER IN 'ESCAPE FROM HELL ISLAND'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNZOSSa-rNrn9TRNAes8Xng22RvkwR6gAs_VKqEzI-TqDQ_7l_AJMDNLevNoS94Vm90Fqv6ryMenjY2rmVInsrFUAwEJuU7Ao0c3HF7UUNgOBR0lubn5wVKW2DfNXEPxL9qrhNIk4CH5sd/s1600/p47210_p_v8_aa.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="890" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNZOSSa-rNrn9TRNAes8Xng22RvkwR6gAs_VKqEzI-TqDQ_7l_AJMDNLevNoS94Vm90Fqv6ryMenjY2rmVInsrFUAwEJuU7Ao0c3HF7UUNgOBR0lubn5wVKW2DfNXEPxL9qrhNIk4CH5sd/w400-h288/p47210_p_v8_aa.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>FROM HELL ISLAND" year: 1963 Rates: **1/2<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's filmmaking, and then there are films that somehow get made... but that still don't seem like actual movies: Which is what the misleadingly titled ESCAPE FROM HELL ISLAND is: Basically an early 1960's retooling of TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT since actor/director Mark Stevens's ex-smuggler Captain James, a charter boat captain, is hired by two exiled Cubans to pick up refugees living in Fidel Castro's title island...</p><p>Made during JFK's presidency, an unpopular Cuba is the proverbial HELL, a locale we see for only a split second as military gunman fire at Captain James's boat while he's picking up the human cargo, and one in particular is supposed to mean everything, and yet, surprisingly, given the pulpy tagline, <i>Sharing a Love That Was Not Theirs To Take</i>, the second lead <i>isn't </i>the sexy Cuban girl, played by newcomer Linda Scott (not to be mistaken for WESTWORLD blonde bombshell Lina Gaye Scott). Rather, her abusive, deranged husband is not only the main antagonist, he pretty much steals the entire show. If HELL ISLAND were made ten years later, it might've been Bruce Dern as the skinny, chaotic Jack Donner's role as Kyle Dennison, who even gets the opening credits standalone <i>And</i> treatment, which usually means the second most important character after the lead...
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MARK STEVENS WITH JACK DONNER IN 'ESCAPE FROM HELL ISLAND'

FROM HELL ISLAND" year: 1963 Rates: **1/2 There's filmmaking, and then there are films that somehow get made... but that still don...

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