Island of Doomed Men

Island of Doomed Men

There's no escape... from his FIEND'S PARADISE of torture!

NR 1940 · 67 min · ★ 5.5 · Crime, Drama, Thriller

An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.

Directed by Charles Barton · Written by Robert Hardy Andrews

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