Island of Love (1963)
It's the Place Where They Invented It!
101 min
Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony's stripper girl friend, Cha Cha Miller. The film is such a disaster, however, that Steve and his writer, Paul Ferris, decide to escape on a freighter to Greece. En route, Steve learns that the island of Paradeisos has lost its tourist trade because it has no apparent historical or mythological heritage. Intrigued, he hits upon the scheme of turning Paradeisos into a legendary island of love and taking a cut from all commercial enterprises. After planting Greek antiquities in the waters surrounding the island, Steve induces Paul to "recover" them, thus causing the tourist trade to increase.
- Release date
- June 12, 1963
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- George Duning
Cast
- Robert Preston as Steve Blair
- Tony Randall as Paul Ferris
- Giorgia Moll as Elena Harakas
- Walter Matthau as Tony Dallas
- Betty Bruce as Cha Cha Miller
- Vassili Lambrinos as Gregor Pappas
- Michael Constantine as Andy
- Oliver Johnston as Prof. Krumwitz
- Titos Vandis as Father Anaxagoras
- Miranda Myrat as Mama Harakas
Crew
- Morton DaCosta · Director
- David R. Schwartz · Writer
- Leo Katcher · Writer
- Morton DaCosta · Producer
- George Duning · Composer
- Harry Stradling Sr. · Cinematographer
- William H. Ziegler · Editor