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.

The Island Monster
Directed byRoberto Bianchi Montero
Written byRoberto Bianchi Montero
Carlo Lombardo
Alberto Vecchietti
Produced byFortunato Misiano
StarringBoris Karloff
Franca Marzi
Germana Paolieri
CinematographyAugusto Tiezzi
Edited byJolanda Benvenuti
Music byCarlo Innocenzi
Production
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Distributed bySiden Film
Release date
  • 2 January 1954 (1954-01-02)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Plot

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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]

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References

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  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

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  • 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.
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