The Island Monster

1954 Italian film
  • 2 January 1954 (1954-01-02)
Running time
87 minutesCountryItalyLanguageItalian

The Island Monster (Italian: Il mostro dell'isola/ The Monster of the Island) is a 1954 Italian thriller film directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero and starring Boris Karloff, Franca Marzi and Germana Paolieri.[1][2] It was made at Cinecitta Studios with location shooting taking place on the island of Ischia.

Plot

Don Gaetano, an apparently respectable man but the leader of a gang of traffickers, kidnaps a little girl to force a policeman not to investigate; the latter, aided by a woman of the gang, frees the child and arrests the criminals.[3]

Cast

  • Boris Karloff as Don Gaetano
  • Franca Marzi as Gloria D'Auro
  • Renato Vicario as Ten. Mario Andreani
  • Patrizia Remiddi as Fiorella Andreani
  • Jole Fierro as Giulia
  • Carlo Duse as Foster
  • Germana Paolieri as Adalgisa
  • Giuseppe Chinnici as Maresciallo Antonio Carcani
  • Giulio Battiferri as Il rapitore
  • Domenico De Nimmo as Uomo di Pozzuoli
  • Clara Gamberini as La contessa
  • Salvatore Scibetta as Col. Della Finanza

References

  1. ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
  2. ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
  3. ^ "IL MOSTRO DELL'ISOLA - Film (1953)". ComingSoon.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-05-02.

Bibliography

  • Barry Atkinson. Atomic Age Cinema: The Offbeat, the Classic and the Obscure. Midnight Marquee, 2013.
  • Lawrence McCallum. Italian Horror Films of the 1960s: A Critical Catalog of 62 Chillers. McFarland & Company, 1998.

External links

  • The Island Monster at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata


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