Holiday Island

Holiday Island

1957 · 105 min · ★ 6.2 · Comedy

Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.

Directed by Mario Camerini · Written by Leonardo Benvenuti

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