Flame of the Islands

Flame of the Islands

1955 · 90 min · ★ 4.7 · Drama

An administrative assistant who may or may not have been the mistress of her firm’s deceased client receives a payout from the dead man’s widow and uses it to buy a stake in a Caribbean casino. In addition to being a neophyte empresario she’s a nightclub singer and several men lust after her.

Directed by Edward Ludwig · Written by Bruce Manning

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