On this day in movie history - Hell's Island (1955):

Hell's Island,

directed by Phil Karlson,

written by Maxwell Shane,

was released in the United States on June 27, 1955.
Based on a story by Martin Goldsmith and Jack Leonard.
Re-released in 1962, with the new title: South Sea Fury.

Music by Irvin Talbot.

Cast:
John Payne, Mary Murphy, Francis L. Sullivan, Eduardo Noriega, Arnold Moss, Walter Reed, Sándor Szabó, Pepe Hern, Robert Cabal, Paul Picerni, Mario Siletti, Matty Fain, Ralph Dumke, Lillian Molieri, Gil Barreto, Victor Bartell, Tom Bernard, Eumenio Blanco, Argentina Brunetti, Edward Coch, Delmar Costello, Sayre Dearing, Henry A. Escalante, Duke Fishman, Bess Flowers, Ben Frommer, Nacho Galindo, David Garcia, Kenneth Gibson, Jose Gonzales-Gonzales, Dick Gordon, Josefa Heredia, Ramiro Jaloma, Manuel López, Paul Marion, Margarita Martín, Harold Miller, Alex Montoya, Julia Montoya, Forbes Murray, Monty O'Grady, José Oliveira, Don Orlando, Murray Pollack, Paul Regas, Carlos Rivero, Jack Tornek.

Born on this day – Paul Koslo:

Paul Koslo

Actor

June 27, 1944 – January 9, 2019

Born on this day – Geneviève Fontanel:

Geneviève Fontanel

Actress

June 27, 1936 – March 17, 2018

Born on this day – Shirley Anne Field:

Shirley Anne Field

Actress

June 27, 1936 – December 10, 2023

Credits:

Beautiful Relics (2014); The Power of Three (2011); The Kid (2010); Doctors (2000); Last of the Summer Wine (2008); Heyday (2005); Monarch of the Glen (2005); The Green Door (2005); Waking the Dead (2003); Where the Heart Is (2001); The Good Doctor (2000); Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (2000); The Bill (2000); Dalziel and Pascoe (1999); A Monkey's Tale (1999); Madson (1996); Barbara (1995); Bramwell (1995); Rumble (1995); Taking Liberty (1995); Loving Deadly (1994); At Risk (1994); U.F.O. (1993); Lady Chatterley (1993); Anna Lee (1993); Murder, She Wrote (1992); El C.I.D. (1992); Hear My Song (1991); The Rachel Papers (1989); Getting It Right (1989); Shag (1988); Santa Barbara (1987); Never the Twain (1987); My Beautiful Laundrette (1985); Two by Forsyth (1984); Buccaneer (1980); Shoestring (1979); Centre Play (1977); House of the Living Dead (1974); A Touch of the Other (1970); With Love in Mind (1970); Hell Is Empty (1967); Five More (1966); Alfie (1966); Carnaby, M.D. (1966); The Wedding March (1966); Lunch Hour (1963); Kings of the Sun (1963); The Damned (1962); The War Lover (1962); Jungle Street Girls (1960); Man in the Moon (1960); Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960); Wild for Kicks (1960); The Entertainer (1960); Peeping Tom (1960); And the Same to You (1960); Once More, with Feeling! (1960); International Detective (1959); Upstairs and Downstairs (1959); Horrors of the Black Museum (1959); The New Adventures of Martin Kane (1957); The Beasts of Marseilles (1957); The Flesh Is Weak (1957); The Good Companions (1957); Dry Rot (1956); The Silken Affair (1956); The Weapon (1956); Loser Takes All (1956); It's a Wonderful World (1956); It's Never Too Late (1956); Yield to the Night (1956); Tears for Simon (1956); All for Mary (1955); Simon and Laura (1955).

Born on this day – Magali Noël:

Magali Noël

Actress

Singer

June 27, 1931 – June 23, 2015

Credits:

A qualcuna piace calvo (1960); Absolument cinema (2001); Acteur studio (1987); All the Other Girls Do! (1964); Amarcord (1973); Amarcord de Federico (2004); Astragal (1968); Boris Vian, swing à Saint-Germain des Prés (2010); Boulevard (1960); Ça n'arrive qu'aux vivants (1959); Cabaret du soir (1958); Café Picouly (2009); Caroline and the Rebels (1955); Ce soir (ou jamais!) (2009); Champs-Elysées (1983–1990); Ciao, Federico! (1970); Cinépanorama (1960); Comme avant, mieux qu'avant (1972); Comment ne pas épouser un milliardaire (1966); Crimes et jardins (1991); Dans la gueule du loup (1961); Demain nous divorçons (1951); Dernier tiercé (1965); Destination Fury (1961); Deux de l'escadrille (1953); Diesel (1985); Discorama (1961); Donnarumma all'assalto (1972); Doris (1956); Du côté de chez Fred (1988); È arrivata la parigina (1958); École des vedettes (1961); Edipeon (1970); Elena and Her Men (1956); Exit-exil (1986); Fellini dice... (2006); Fellini Satyricon (1969); Fidelity (2000); Gastone (1960); Gioventù di notte (1961); Il prete sposato (1970); J'avais 15 ans (2008); Jean-Christophe (1978); La banca di Monate (1976); La chance aux chansons (1985); La corde au cou (1965); La dama de Beirut (1965); La derelitta / Cinéma 16 (1982–1986); La Dolce Vita (1960); La nuit de l'éclusier (1989); La ragazza in vetrina (1961); La source des Sarrazins (2002); La traite des blanches (1965); Le belve (1971); Le chemin perdu (1980); Le dernier des cinq (1974); Le dernier fils (1998); Le désir mène les hommes (1957); Le mas Théotime (1969); Le miroir à trois faces: Carmen (1965); Le mois le plus beau (1968); Le palmarès des chansons (1965); Le p'tit vient vite (1972); Le Sahara brûle (1961); Legge di guerra (1961); Les bottes rouges (1985); Les coeurs brûlés (1992); Les dossiers de l'écran (1980); Les héritiers (1997); Les rendez-vous du dimanche (1978–1980); Les trois Henry (1962); L'histoire du samedi (1999); L'invité (2009–2011); Lovers and Thieves (1956); Lundi noir (1989); Mardi cinema (1985); Marie of the Isles (1959); Midi Trente (1972); Mille Bravo (1990); Monsieur Cinéma (1980); Mourez, nous ferons le reste (1954); Murder Party (1961); Musique and Music (1977); No Escape (1958); Noi che abbiamo fatto la dolce vita (2009); Noi siamo due evasi (1959); Noi siamo due evasi (1959); Numéro un (1976); O.S.S. 117 n'est pas mort (1957); Oh! Qué mambo (1959); Paolo Barca, maestro elementare, praticamente nudista (1975); Passing show (1964); Passionate Summer (1956); Pentimento (1989); Querido cabaret (1991); Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David? (1982); Queste pazze pazze donne (1964); Racconti proibiti... di niente vestiti (1972); Razzia (1955); Regina Coeli (2000); Requiem pour un caïd (1964); Rififi (1955); Saint Laurent (2014); Samedi soir (1971); Season for Assassins (1975); Seul dans Paris (1951); Si le roi savait ça (1958); Stato interessante (1977); Sur les traces de Fellini (2013); Système 2 (1976); Temptation (1959); The Accident (1963); The Confessions of Felix Krull (1982); The Death Eye of Ceylon (1963); The Death of Mario Ricci (1983); The Eighties (1983); The Golem (1967); The Grand Maneuver (1955); The Lowest Crime (1955); The Lustful Vicar (1970); The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970); The Meetings of Anna (1978); The Ray Bradbury Theater (1988); The Road to Shame (1959); The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan (1962); The Truth About Charlie (2002); The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars (1964); Totò e Cleopatra (1963); Toute la chanson (1960); Transit (1982); Trente-Six Chandelles (1957); Tropic of Cancer (1970); Un pas dans la forêt (1980); Upshaw (1967); Vertiges (1985); Z (1969); Zoom su Fellini (1983).

Born on this day – Peter Maas:

Peter Maas

Writer

June 27, 1929 – August 23, 2001

Credits:

Books:

The Rescuer (1967); The Valachi Papers (aka The Canary That Sang) (1968); Serpico (1973); King of the Gypsies (1975); Made in America (1979); Marie (1983); Manhunt (1986); Father and Son (1989); In a Child's Name (1990); China White (1994); Killer Spy (1995); Underboss (1997); The Terrible Hours (1999).

Movies and television:

90 Minutes Live (1976); Biography (2004–2005); Film '73 (1973); Frost on Saturday (1969); History's Mysteries (2000); Homicide: Life on the Street (1997); In a Child's Name (1991); King of the Gypsies (1978); Marie (1985); Mobsters (2007); Oz (2001); Pownews (2010); Robert F. Kennedy: A Memoir (1998); Serpico (1973); Serpico / TV show (1976–1977); Special Collector's Edition (2013); Submerged (2001); The David Frost Show (1969); The Dennis Wholey Show (1969); The Merv Griffin Show (1967–1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1967–1973); The Steve Allen Show (1969); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1973); The Valachi Papers (1972); Today (1968); Top of the Pops (1981).

Born on this day – Dhia Cristiani:

Dhia Cristiani

Actress

June 27, 1921 – July 17, 1977

Credits:

$1,000 on the Black (1966); $10,000 Blood Money (1967); 002 operazione Luna (1965); 3 straniere a Roma (1958); A Day in Court (1954); A Fistful of Dollars (1964); A Man Called Sledge (1970); A qualcuna piace calvo (1960); Addio, amore! (1943); Addio, Napoli! (1955); Ai margini della metropoli (1953); Altair (1956); Amore mio (1964); Angélique (1964); Anna perdonami (1953); Anna: The Pleasure, the Torment (1973); Anni difficili (1948); Anthony of Padua (1949); Archimède, le clochard (1959); At Sword's Edge (1952); Atom Age Vampire (1960); Auferstehung (1958); Avanzi di galera (1954); Ballata tragica (1955); Beauty on the Beach (1961); Blood and Black Lace (1964); Bufere (1953); Cantami buongiorno tristezza (1957); Castle of the Banned Lovers (1956); Centomila dollari (1940); Chains (1949); Che distinta famiglia! (1945); Chi è senza peccato.... (1952); Chiamate 22-22 tenente Sheridan (1960); Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954); Colpo rovente (1970); Conqueror of Maracaibo (1961); Crazy Desire (1962); Crime Does Not Pay (1962); Dagli Appennini alle Ande (1959); Day by Day, Desperately (1961); Delirio (1954); Disperato addio (1955); Domani è un altro giorno (1951); Don Camillo e l'on. Peppone (1955); Don Juan's Night of Love (1952); Donne sole (1956); Due lacrime (1954); Due milioni per un sorriso (1939); Elena and Her Men (1956); Emergency Squad (1974); Era lei che lo voleva! (1953); Esther and the King (1960); Ettore Fieramosca (1938); Fame and the Devil (1949); Fari nella nebbia (1942); Fatal Desire (1953); Febbre di vivere (1953); Femmina incatenata (1949); Fermi tutti... arrivo io! (1953); First Love (1959); Footprints on the Moon (1975); For a Few Dollars More (1965); Four Ways Out (1951); Frine, cortigiana d'Oriente (1953); Frisky (1954); Frontier Wolf (1952); Funniest Show on Earth (1953); Gelosia (1953); Gladiator of Rome (1962); Gli orizzonti del sole (1955); Goliath and the Barbarians (1959); Guai ai vinti (1954); Gunfight in the Red Sands (1963); Guns of the Black Witch (1961); Hercules (1958); Hercules and the Masked Rider (1963); Hercules the Invincible (1964); Holiday Island (1957); House of Ricordi (1954); I baccanali di Tiberio (1960); I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (I beati paoli) (1948); I giorni della violenza (1967); I grandi magazzini (1939); I patriarchi (1963); I tartassati (1959); I terribili 7 (1963); I tre corsari (1952); Il barone Carlo Mazza (1948); Il cielo è rosso (1950); Il padrone sono me (1955); Il prezzo della gloria (1956); Il romanzo della mia vita (1952); Il segreto delle rose (1958); Il tiranno di Padova (1946); Inspector Maigret (1958); Io sono il capataz (1951); Io, Amleto (1952); Jolanda la figlia del corsaro nero (1953); Journey to Italy (1954); Knife of Ice (1972); La donna che inventò l'amore (1952); La nemica (1952); La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi (1953); La sceriffa (1959); La schiava del peccato (1954); La scuola del cinema (1942); La spada e la croce (1958); La sposa non può attendere (1949); La statua vivente (1943); La tratta delle bianche (1952); Lacrime di sposa (1955); Le due sorelle (1950); Le guerriere dal seno nudo (1973); Le tre eccetera del colonnello (1960); Les Misérables (1958); Les tricheurs (1958); L'inafferrabile 12 (1950); L'intrusa (1956); L'oro del mondo (1968); Love and Poison (1950); Love on the Riviera (1958); L'ultima cena (1948); L'ultima violenza (1957); L'ultimo amante (1955); Lust of the Vampire (1957); Mafia Junction (1973); Mai ti scorderò (1956); Malinconico autunno (1958); Mambo (1954); Man of Straw (1958); Mata Hari's Daughter (1954); Melodie immortali - Mascagni (1952); Melody of Love (1952); Menzogna (1952); Mi permette babbo! (1956); Michael Strogoff (1956); Miss Italia (1950); Mistress of Treves (1952); My Heart Sings (1951); Nel sole (1967); Nobody's Children (1951); Nobody's Land (1939); Noi peccatori (1953); Obsession (1943); Of Life and Love (1954); One Dollar Too Many (1968); Paolo e Francesca (1950); Parola di ladro (1957); Peppino, le modelle e.... 'chella llà' (1957); Prima di sera (1954); Prisoner in the Tower of Fire (1952); Professionals for a Massacre (1967); Puccini (1953); Queen of the Nile (1961); Ragazze d'oggi (1955); Rage of the Buccaneers (1961); Red Lips (1960); Revenge of Black Eagle (1951); Revenge of the Pirates (1951); Rififi (1955); Rigoletto e la sua tragedia (1956); Ripudiata (1955); Riviera (1954); Romeo and Juliet (1968); Romulus and the Sabines (1961); Sand, Love and Salt (1957); Sansone contro i pirati (1963); Scandali al mare (1961); Scuola elementare (1955); Sempre più difficile (1943); Seven Dollars to Kill (1966); Sigfrido (1957); Sign of the Gladiator (1959); Sissignora (1942); Story of a Love Affair (1950); Swordsman of Siena (1962); Texas Ranger (1964); The Antichrist (1974); The Art of Getting Along (1954); The Beast of Babylon Against the Son of Hercules (1963); The Charterhouse of Parma (1948); The Contessa's Secret (1954); The Crossing of Paris (1956); The Devil Is a Woman (1953); The Devil's Cavaliers (1959); The Dream of Zorro (1952); The Earth Cries Out (1949); The Fall of Rome (1963); The Forbidden Christ (1951); The Grand Maneuver (1955); The King's Guerrillas (1950); The Lady Without Camelias (1953); The Life and Music of Giuseppe Verdi (1953); The Loves of Hercules (1960); The Lucky Five (1952); The Miller's Beautiful Wife (1955); The Moralist (1959); The Naked and the Wicked (1951); The Path of Hope (1950); The Queen of Sheba (1952); The Railroad Man (1956); The Red and the Black (1954); The Relentless Four (1965); The Ship of Damned Women (1953); The Sign of the Coyote (1963); The Teacher and the Miracle (1957); The Three Musketeers (1953); The Tramplers (1965); The Vampire and the Ballerina (1960); The Vanquished (1953); The Vengeance of Ursus (1961); The Warrior and the Slave Girl (1958); The White Angel (1955); The World Condemns Them (1953); The Young Caruso (1951); Theodora, Slave Empress (1954); This Angry Age (1958); Three Graves for a Winchester (1966); Tomorrow Is Too Late (1950); Tormento (1950); Torna piccina mia! (1955); Torna! (1954); Tornado on Wheels (1957); Totò cerca casa (1949); Trinity Is Still My Name (1971); Tua per la vita (1955); Twelve Hours to Live (1950); Two Nights with Cleopatra (1954); Ultimate Gunfighter (1967); Un dollaro di fifa (1960); Un giglio infranto (1955); Un marito per il mese di aprile (1941); Una romantica avventura (1940); Una storia d'amore (1942); Vendetta... sarda (1952); Vento di primavera (1958); Verginità (1951); Vespro siciliano (1949); Via delle cinque lune (1942); Vortice (1953); War and Peace (1956); We Stole a Tram (1954); What Price Innocence? (1952); White Slave Ship (1961); Zazà (1944).